Impotent Quotes

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Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp… — Eva Hoffman
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Both force and money are impotent against ideas. — Ludwig von Mises
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world… — Mark Mirabello
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,… — Mahatma Gandhi
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot… — Nicolas Malebranche
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. — Rabindranath Tagore
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive. — Aldous Huxley
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an… — Susan Sontag
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs… — Ted Rall
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. — Ella Maillart
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side… — Henry A. Kissinger
The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems.… — Robert Foster Bennett
Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. — John Galt
We're even going to have sex in Heaven! How about that? Isn't that wonderful? Love all the girls you want to and all the handsome… — David Berg
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give… — Lewis Mumford
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks… — Charles Churchill

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