Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
“When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that… — Louise Erdrich 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
“Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“see how God used my powerlessness for His purposes. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
“And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?" "You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck 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
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nurse talking to a… — James Jones 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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
