Famous quotes containing the word capacity:
“Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but mans inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971)
“Modern mans capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanitys capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“There is also something excellent in every audience,the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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