Impotence Quotes
105 Impotence quotes by 92 unique authors
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
— Aleister Crowley
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
— Karl Marx
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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
— Jeanne Moreau
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of…
— Salman Rushdie
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Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
— John Steinbeck
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance…
— Joseph Heller
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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the…
— Aldous Huxley
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at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were…
— Janet Fitch
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the…
— Norman Mailer
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then…
— Audre Lorde
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Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"…
— Joseph Heller
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know…
— Erica Jong
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
— Gilles Deleuze
Who Wrote These Impotence Quotes
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