“Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.” NeedsHumansMayMadeHelpingSocialMy OwnHuman BeingsPartyReadyMy FriendsSatisfactionActiveResolve Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience
“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.” WellsLooksStatesLightLawSocialViewsModernOughtEmptyCommandSovereignSovereigntySocial ChangeRapidsPrecedentLooking To The Future Author:William Ernest Hocking
“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.” ThinkingWayYearsHumansTwoThreeIndividualSocialHuman BeingsResultsThousandImpulseNativeThriveThousand YearsVentureEvident Author:William Ernest Hocking
