Powerlessness Quotes

“No one bargains with fire and avoids becoming ash.”

— pierre lagrenat

Powerlessness and silence go together.

— Margaret Atwood

“Her only weapons were her tears.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

— Jane Smiley

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness”

— Chip Conley

“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She is a slave, with no way home.”

— Heather Demetrios

“Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.”

— Mike Norton

“NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness.”

— Katie Alender

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

— Adrienne Rich

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

— Monica Vitti

To argue that voting is a waste of time or useless is to participate in your own powerlessness.

— Jonathan Capehart

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

— Robert Casey

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used. Powerlessness and silence go together.”

— Margaret Atwood

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

— Erica Jong

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls…

— Mark Helprin

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.…

— Irene Khan

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the…

— Henri Nouwen

“Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually…

— Adam Arkin

“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

We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of…

— Joan D. Chittister

The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all…

— John of Kronstadt

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

“She hated the powerlessness. The feeling of weakness always lurking beneath the surface, making her confidence seem phony, making her feel like…

— Laura Griffin

... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be…

— Judith M Bardwick

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The…

— Starhawk

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

“As we let ourselves experience powerlessness, we feel it in our body and inner spirit. We feel lighter, more relaxed, as though…

— Martha Cleveland

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape…

— Gary Zukav

“No solution will be found by accepting powerlessness or poverty as inevitable, irreplaceable social features. The failure of the system to answer…

— Louis D. Lo Praeste

“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

“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me…

— Audre Lorde

“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

“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We…

— Christopher Lasch

“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the…

— Vasily Grossman

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

“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