#incapable

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#coward #exhibiting #incapable #love #prerogative

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#attained #because #expression #far #form

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#category #causes #classes #despair #does

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. ↗

— Origen

#any #being #could #degree #every

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratically #difficult #elections #incapable #part

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

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