Capable

Famous quotes containing the word capable:

“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

“Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
—G. Dawes Hicks (1862–1941)

“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)