It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness. — Andrei Sakharov 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
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The threatening tone, harsh aggression, made her submissive (Across Time And Space)” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The locust has no king Just noise and hard language They talk me over” — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some… — Lisa Unger 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
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
