Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible… — William James Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. — Clive James Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a… — Paul Clark Copy Share Image
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image