Powerless Quotes · Page 6

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

— William Thomas Stead

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

— Anonymous

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

— Hank Green

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

— Suze Orman

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

— Sathya Sai Baba

We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous…

— Libba Bray

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

— Mary Blakely

No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but…

— Cnut the Great

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic… We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society…

— Maggie Kuhn

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music…

— Sinead O'Connor

“He felt oddly powerless, as if his entire life were in the fingers of two faceless players maneuvering pieces in the same…

— David Eddings

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment…

— Maya Angelou

Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all…

— Henry Spira

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already…

— Yukio Mishima

I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which…

— L. Neil Smith

Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On…

— Masao Abe

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as…

— Edith Wharton

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold…

— Leonardo da Vinci

However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we…

— Mary Blakely

There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing…

— Steve Backshall

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

— Lewis Baltz

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

— Sebastian Horsley

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

— Anonymous

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

— Andrew Wommack

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The biggest problems in the world are created by those individuals who experience themselves as powerless.

— Senoraroy

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

— C. S. Lewis

You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.

— Butch Hartman

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

— Dante Alighieri

Insults are the last resort of the weak-minded when they feel powerless.

— Russ Johnson

“I protect Prim in every way I can, but I'm powerless against the reaping.”

— Suzanne Collins

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

— Swami Vivekananda

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

— Alexandra Bracken

“I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.”

— Nenia Campbell

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

— Max Joseph

“I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them…

— Glen Cook