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A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction. -- Don Feder
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. -- John Milton
April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never. -- Franz Kafka
O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!! -- Valerie Solanas
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. -- Oscar Wilde
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like. -- Joanne Harris
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. -- Erich Fromm
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. -- Bruce Lee
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. -- Raymond Chandler
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. -- Ronald Reagan
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
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. -- Umberto Eco
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype. -- Eva Mendes
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. -- Sarah Bernhardt
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. -- Albert Einstein
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. -- Jose Saramago
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. -- Walter Benjamin
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
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. -- Sam Harris
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. -- Anne Bradstreet
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. -- Yves Tanguy
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
After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening. -- Rob Lowe
If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. -- Duff Goldman
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. -- Paul Arden
I am incapable of mediocrity. -- Serge Gainsbourg
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. -- John Sterling
I'm incapable of feeling any joy. -- Mike Birbiglia
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. -- Michael Pollan
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. -- Alan Watts
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. -- Diane Frolov
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. -- Maria Mitchell
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. -- Publilius Syrus
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. -- Simon Schama
I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. -- John Denver
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. -- Norman Mailer
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness. -- Paulo Coelho
Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. -- Richard Evans Schultes
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. -- George Henry Lewes
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy. -- William S. Burroughs
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. -- Douglas Yates
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. -- Gary Oldman
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself. -- Gene Weingarten
People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself. -- Rush Limbaugh
People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself. -- Rush Limbaugh
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. -- L. Neil Smith
My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything -- Robert Pattinson
I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise. -- Donald Tusk
Im plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise. -- Donald Tusk
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. -- Hannah Arendt
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving. -- Agatha Christie
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature. -- Mo Yan
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job. -- Dylan Moran
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. -- Bashar al-Assad
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. -- Michel Chossudovsky
It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government. -- Robert A. Agresta
I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. -- Jack Nicholson
I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of. -- Dov Davidoff
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth. -- Leonard Read
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea. -- Ron Paul
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. -- Idries Shah
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. -- Dennis Prager
Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the... -- Walter Benjamin
People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. -- A. N. Wilson
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. -- Lord Chesterfield
Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. -- Gustave Flaubert
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. -- Kenny Hickey
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. -- Leigh Hunt
A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -- Okakura Kakuzo
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. -- Lord Chesterfield
The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything. -- Abraham Lincoln
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. -- Marc Bloch
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. -- Voltaire
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false. -- Richard Steele
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. -- Oliver Ellsworth
There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. -- John Cage
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction. -- Muhammad Ali
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. -- Georges Braque
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... -- Thucydides
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. -- Jeremy Grantham
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. -- John Bunyan
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. -- James De Mille
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. -- Paul Auster
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. -- Marcel Proust
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. -- Busy Philipps
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. -- Mitch Albom
There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body. -- Jim Rohn
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. -- Robert A. Heinlein
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction. -- Billy Graham
It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood. -- Pope Francis
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. -- William Faulkner
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. -- Bette Greene
We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. -- Herbert Marcuse
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. -- Elbert Hubbard

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