Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“My powerlessness overwhelms me. I don’t know where to find you, how to reach you, how to understand you. All I can… — Sarah Brooks Copy Share Image
If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances,… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“When external sources of power are sought in personal relationships to overcome inner feelings of powerlessness, power comes not from a place… — Mark Rosen Copy Share Image
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work.… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Often feelings of shame, powerlessness, and self-hate are bottled up with the memories, and as the memories come through, these feelings do,… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that "our… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
