“Impotence in prayer leads us, however unwillingly, to strike a truce with evil. When you accept what is, you abandon a Christian… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
“When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
![“In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without…” quote by Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ef/mahatma-gandhi-23_answers_in-the-secret-of-my-heart-i-am-in-perpet_2985375.jpg)
![“What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self…” quote by Georg Brandes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b9d/georg-brandes-10610_baseness_what-nietzsche-calls-slave-morality-is-t_2767791.jpg)