Powerless Quotes

336 quotes by 280 authors

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and… — Carolyn Heilbrun
The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be… — Susan L. Taylor
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position,… — Susan Griffin
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the… — Nick Kroll
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling… — Diogenes
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. — Claude Monet
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless. — Henry Cloud
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand,… — Bill Vaughan
Emotions. Swelling waves that we are so often powerless to navigate. Is there some meaning to them? Of course, you just have to learn how… — Ruben Papian
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. — Karl Marx
My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would… — Roseanne Barr
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. — Sigmund Freud
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. — Quentin Crisp
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. — Don DeLillo
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and… — Harvey Fierstein
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so… — Vaclav Havel

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