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Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far (Incapable Quotes)
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action (Incapable Quotes)
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation (Incapable Quotes)
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished (Incapable Quotes)
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou (Incapable Quotes)
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it (Incapable Quotes)
To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the imagination. To think yourself capable of all crimes is another (Incapable Quotes)
The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it (Incapable Quotes)
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it (Incapable Quotes)
The best I can say is that it’s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It’s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily (Incapable Quotes)
It was still only nine o’clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen (Incapable Quotes)
Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching (Incapable Quotes)
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it (Incapable Quotes)
The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness (Incapable Quotes)
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies (Incapable Quotes)
Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness (Incapable Quotes)
Better a hundred times an honest and capable administration of an erroneous policy than a corrupt and incapable administration of a good one (Incapable Quotes)
He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself (Incapable Quotes)
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage (Incapable Quotes)
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise (Incapable Quotes)
This twofold nature of man is so evident that some have thought that we had two souls. A single subject seemed to them incapable of such sudden variations from unmeasured presumption to a dreadful dejection of heart (Incapable Quotes)
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact (Incapable Quotes)
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute (Incapable Quotes)
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane (Incapable Quotes)
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops (Incapable Quotes)
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free (Incapable Quotes)
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity (Incapable Quotes)
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive (Incapable Quotes)
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true (Incapable Quotes)
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir (Incapable Quotes)