Famous quotes containing the word capacity:
“Once a child has demonstrated his capacity for independent functioning in any area, his lapses into dependent behavior, even though temporary, make the mother feel that she is being taken advantage of....What only yesterday was a description of the childs stage in life has become an indictment, a judgment.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happinessto bring him down to the miserable level of good men i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but mans inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971)