Powerless Quotes · Page 5

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

— Henry Cloud

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

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

— Andrew Haigh

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

— Herophilos

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

— Paulo Freire

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

— Bertrand Russell

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

— Richard Hammond

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

— Mary Blakely

I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous…

— Libba Bray

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but…

— Cnut the Great

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic… We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society…

— Maggie Kuhn

As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people.…

— Alec Baldwin

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to…

— Dean Koontz

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over…

— Carrie Brownstein

What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability…

— Shepard Fairey

One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they…

— Winona LaDuke

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there…

— August Strindberg

What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman?…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet…

— Sierra D. Waters

“She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done…

— Harriet Evans

Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets…

— D.T. Suzuki

Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.

— Wesley L Duewel

“She was not in control here, and she hated feeling powerless to alter the result.”

— Robert Dugoni

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

— Gerard De Nerval

Do not get upset with people or situations. Both are powerless without your reaction!..

— Ritu

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

— Matthew Arnold

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

— Mike Colter

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

— Patricia Arquette

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

— Phyllis Chesler

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

— Gerry Spence

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

— Quentin Crisp

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A mother who does not seek wisdom, prayer, or self-education is bound to be a powerless woman.”

— S.L. Jones

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

— Bell Hooks