I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Those who are a danger to the society being resentful and uncooperative are themselves the most powerless ones, they are so because… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt.… — Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small,… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information… — Patricia Sun Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
[W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity… — Jo Yoon-hee Copy Share Image
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless.… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“I realize that I am powerless to resist him. There's nothing I can do; this man has a GPS navigation system that… — Carole Matthews Copy Share Image
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even… — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
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