Walter Gropius

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

German Architect

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The strength of the British constitution is supposedly its ability, because it is unwritten in key respects like the incapacity of the prime minister, to adapt to crises with flexibility and urgency.

British Politician

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Indian Philosopher

Steve Schmidt

I've spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete incapacity to govern. Period.

American Businessman

Immanuel Kant

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

German Philosopher

Gene Kranz

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

American Public Servant

Polly Toynbee

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

English Journalist

Robinson Jeffers

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

American Poet

William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

English Poet

Anais Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

American Author

Often used to describe someone's ability to perform their job due to health.

Work-Related Use

Context indicates whether 'incapacity' refers to temporary or permanent condition.

Context Sensitive

Can imply a personal failing, use carefully to avoid offense.

Emotional Weight

Incapacity isn't only physical, it can also be emotional or intellectual.

Not Just Physical

In legal terms, 'incapacity' can remove personal autonomy, used in judgments.

Legal Specificity

Has serious implications; in legal use, it involves courts and documentation.

Serious Implication

 departments business as usual to pass those thumbs down to the local level and they weren't getting there the feedback was that for every ten dollars we were spending in the education sector to was reaching the grassroot level that was almost eighty percent loss either with the incapacity to spend it or it

The path toward...

 that while the headlines may all be -- the pessimistic headlines may say, well, we can't do this, that or the other thing because of corruption -- I think incapacity is a far bigger problem in poor countries than corruption, and feeds corruption.