Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you. — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-Leninist Party? To the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I call it financial impotence, this notion of not having enough money, because it has the same characteristics as sexual impotence. And… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
