Incapability Quotes

• Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

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  Jacob Frank

  Evil   Wickedness   Unjust  

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• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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  Abraham Lincoln

  Government   People   Minorities  

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press

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• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

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  John Ruskin

  Believe   Greatness   Men  

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.158, Cosimo, Inc.

  4885

• Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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  Anton Chekhov

  Friendship   Respect   Hate  

  "The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography".

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

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  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman   Jobs   Thinking  

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

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  John Ruskin

  Care   Noble   Holy  

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.302

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• History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

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  Alan Bennett

  Men   Buckets   Incapability  

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

  1891

• The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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  Anton Chekhov

  Literature   Incapability   University  

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