Powerless Quotes

336 quotes by 294 authors

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's… — Thomas Aquinas
That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until… — Jo Yoon-hee
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It… — Anthony of Sourozh
Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven,… — Cnut the Great
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality… — Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only… — Chief Seattle
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration… — Ramsey Clark
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse… — Augustus William Hare
Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses… — Pope Francis
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by… — Henry David Thoreau
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something… — Alan Cumming
Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies… — Irene Cara
On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have… — Jim Sillars
Raise your hand if youâ€™ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if youâ€™ve felt as if youâ€™d rather hide in bed all… — Dianna Agron
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power — Daphne Zuniga
I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf… — Michelle Rodriguez

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