Impotence Quotes
105 quotes by 93 authors
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
— Theodor Adorno
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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
— Loni Anderson
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
— Anais Nin
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Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for…
— Peter Benenson
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
— Simone Weil
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
— Peter L. Berger
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and…
— Ernest Hemingway
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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Ireland need fresh impotence.
— Phil Babb
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e…
— Rem Koolhaas
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The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike…
— Theodor Adorno
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Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position…
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who…
— August Strindberg
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Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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