Conditions Quote by William Ernest Hocking

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the…

— George Combe

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the…

— John Quincy Adams

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

— David Brooks

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense…

— Henry Giroux

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

— William Ernest Hocking

Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to…

— Paul Kagame

“The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man…

— Ayn Rand

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to…

— William Ernest Hocking

“The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.”

— George Orwell

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

— Chuck Klosterman

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Finally, many people simply think better thoughts when in dialogue with others. Remember I^We: an individual’s power is raised exponentially with the help of…

— Reid Hoffman