Famous quotes containing the word capacity:
“Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but mans inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971)
“To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“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)
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