Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign… — William Blum Copy Share Image
The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk… — Mitsuye Yamada Copy Share Image
Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless… — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?” — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image