Powerless Quotes · Page 6

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

— Andrew Sean Greer

“A lighthouse if for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.”

— M. L. STEADMAN

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

— Hans Frank

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

— Thomas Huxley

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.

— Anonymous

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

— Carol Shields

“Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

— David Eagleman

You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do…

— Corey Taylor

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world,…

— Anonymous

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break'…

— Stephanie Adams

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living…

— Penny Lernoux

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen,…

— Paulo Freire

Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept…

— Sara Zarr

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club…

— Ben Shapiro

I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are…

— Jill Stein

And when you realize that you form the events of your life in the same way, you will learn to take hold…

— Seth

Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such…

— Lewis Nkosi

The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,…

— Ezra Heywood

A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that…

— Lorenzo Snow

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When…

— Judith Lewis Herman

We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into…

— Andy Stern

It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will…

— Dale Jamieson

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

— Gaspar Noe

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

— Chinua Achebe

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

— Dian Hanson

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

— Dean Frazer

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

“The threatening to, harsh aggression, made her submissive. (Across Time And Space)”

— Mala Naidoo

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

— Anne Cameron

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

— Igor Stravinsky

“A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.”

— Lesslie Newbigin

“—I’m saying let’s stop being powerless. —Sometimes we shouldn’t be Carmindor. —Sometimes we should be Amara.”

— Ashley Poston

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

— Derrick Jensen

I can't do this anymore.Staying strong? I'm not strong.. I'm not anything.. I'm useless... Powerless...

— Jasmine Laura

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

— Anne Sexton

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

— Mason Cooley

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

— Cynthia Ozick