“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness” — erica jong Copy Share Image
“The locust has no king Just noise and hard language They talk me over” — David Eugene Edwards 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
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness.” — Katie Alender 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
“Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.” — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
“The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these.” — Michael C. Christen 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
“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
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
“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
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
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“She hated the powerlessness. The feeling of weakness always lurking beneath the surface, making her confidence seem phony, making her feel like… — Laura Griffin Copy Share Image
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e.… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized… — Vernon Howard 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
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“Here is a man who by all conventions should have been a denizen of the lower depths of society: ignored, illiterate, disfigured,… — Michael Sugich Copy Share Image
“Research has linked such feelings of powerlessness to the kinds of health problems plaguing Bayview and many other communities around the world.… — Jeremy A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Eight o'clock, no later, You light the lamps, The big one by the large window, The small one on your desk, They… — Mary Oliver Rotman Copy Share Image
“The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is that God's distinctive greatness… — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict Copy Share Image
“make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “It’s my job to make you… — Danny Silk 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
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image