The mentality of a refugee, forcibly expelled from his…

You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue…

— Susan Jeffers

Americans across our country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear. These feelings are understandable and they are justified. But…

— Loretta Lynch

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was…

— Dianne Feinstein

“Other men go through unemployment in a self-induced emotional coma, unresponsive to the world around them because of their frustration with their situations. Such…

— Darrin Patrick

“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or…

— Les Parrott III

“Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something…

— Philip K. Dick

The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out…

— Beatrix of the Netherlands

“Feelings of helplessness, immobility, and freezing. If hyperarousal is the nervous system’s accelerator, a sense of overwhelming helplessness is its brake. The helplessness that…

— Peter A. Levine

The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought…

— Jenji Kohan

A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you…

— Ron Currie Jr

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.…

— Ed Koch

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

— Barack Obama

If we Europeans are not in a state to be able to solve the refugee crisis ourselves, if we only depend on Plan B…

— Sebastian Kurz

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

— Kofi Annan

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the…

— Michael Hudson