Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which… — Ghassan Andoni Copy Share Image
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
You said you were a victim. That's why...that's why ultimately, you and I aren't matched for each other. In spite of everything… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of… — Natalie Copy Share Image
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
If you're struggling, it's easy to feel powerless until you take control of it and assert what you want. I can understand… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that,… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
American Muslims are already within the system. We should stop isolating ourselves by thinking we are powerless. The youngest generations of Americans… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image