Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater… — Roger Cohen 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've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I… — Sadie Calvano Copy Share Image
I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
“Boy, that was mean, even by my standards," Maysilee says to me. "You can't choose your parents." "You could reject their business,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally… — Matt Papa Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Maybe nobody knows how. Sometimes it's easier to pretend nothing is wrong than to face the fact that everything is wrong, but… — Katja Millay 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
Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it… — Dan Farmer Copy Share Image
My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked… — Roseanne Barr 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
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There’s a huge difference between stating that you have a problem and are going to do something about it, and stating that… — Charles Bufe Copy Share Image
