Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
“You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier to success in almost any endeavor is powerlessness, negativity, helplessness, and inertia — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood. — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances,… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“My powerlessness overwhelms me. I don’t know where to find you, how to reach you, how to understand you. All I can… — Sarah Brooks Copy Share Image
We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work.… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“Often feelings of shame, powerlessness, and self-hate are bottled up with the memories, and as the memories come through, these feelings do,… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness became 'goodness', baseness 'humility', submission to people one hated 'obedience' and, in Nietzsche's phrase, "not-being-able to-take-revenge' turned into 'forgiveness'. Every feeling… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
“But it’s in that disappointment, in that confusion, in that pain—the pain that comes from things not going how I wanted them… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Maud laughed, drily. Roland said, "And then, really, what is it, what is this arcane power we have, when we see that… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“No solution will be found by accepting powerlessness or poverty as inevitable, irreplaceable social features. The failure of the system to answer… — Louis D. Lo Praeste Copy Share Image
