William Ernest Hocking Men Quotations

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.