#incapable

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#category #causes #classes #despair #does

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. ↗

— James Monroe

#corrupt #degenerate #exercising #ignorant #incapable

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#approach #assessment #critical #current #elite

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

#didactic #heavy #i #incapable #integrated

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. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#am #anything #arrive #character #doing

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#beauty #best #commitment #incapable #lasting