Incapable Quotes

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

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

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.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

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.

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.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.