“The locust has no king Just noise and hard language They talk me over” — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness” — erica jong Copy Share Image
Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear,… — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
“As we let ourselves experience powerlessness, we feel it in our body and inner spirit. We feel lighter, more relaxed, as though… — Martha Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity.… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone,… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin Copy Share Image
“I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Science, innovations and other means in which we desperately attempt to predict and control our existence are merely illusions to conceal our… — Tia Nnebo Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or… — Martha Beck 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
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“is an account, in other words, of how a problematic valorization of powerlessness as “good” can easily emerge from the same situation… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image