Famous quotes containing the word capacity:
“Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but mans inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971)
“Lords and Commoners of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
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