Impotence Quotes

105 quotes by 93 authors

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
Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking. — Loni Anderson
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
Violence is a symptom of impotence. — Anais Nin
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
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
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. — Peter L. Berger
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Ireland need fresh impotence. — Phil Babb
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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