Capable Quote by Abraham Lincoln Download Open image “Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.” — Abraham Lincoln ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Community Giving Society
Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image