“The threatening tone, harsh aggression, made her submissive (Across Time And Space)” — Mala Naidoo 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
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. — Robert Reich 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
I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May 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
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“We will no longer make up excuses for powerlessness because powerlessness is inexcusable. Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter… — Franz Grillparzer 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
“As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will… — Andrew Saul 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
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
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
To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most… — William James 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
“Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to effect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and… — Brené Brown 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
“We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book… — Richard Rohr 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
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
