Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood. — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What we really need to understand here is that it's all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as… — Stacy Schiff 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
“ Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to… — Gene Kim 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
Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
“is an account, in other words, of how a problematic valorization of powerlessness as “good” can easily emerge from the same situation… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear,… — Jennifer DeLucy 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
"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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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 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
“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
