There is no such thing as a powerless word." -Kyle W…

We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just…

— David Levithan

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…

— Hannah Arendt

As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral…

— Jack Donovan

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from…

— Addison Timlin

“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in…

— Erik Pevernagie

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I…

— Roseanne Barr

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

— L. Neil Smith

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on…

— V. R. Krishna Iyer

“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”

— Václav Havel

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless,…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do…

— Jo Brand

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,…

— Marya Mannes