Impotent Quotes

118 quotes by 109 authors

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing… — Roseanne Barr
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare
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
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent… — Celia Thaxter
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's… — Mark Twain
To freemen, threats are impotent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, without force, is impotent. — Blaise Pascal
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore de Balzac
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. — Thomas Jefferson
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. — John Mott
It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested… — Paula Coughlin
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to… — Jules de Goncourt
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the… — William Borah
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years… — E F Schumacher
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside… — Clifford Allbutt
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to… — Thomas Jefferson
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near… — Edward Dahlberg
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science… — Jacques Vallee
I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my… — Cher

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