“It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.”
“She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.”
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”
“Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?”
“The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).”
“Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment,...We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history or the world - or make it the last.”