Powerlessness Quotes

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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote… — Ralph Nader
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness… — Henri Nouwen
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of… — Henri Nouwen
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important… — David Foster Wallace
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the… — Studs Terkel
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness — Adrienne Rich
If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of… — Rhonda Byrne
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. — Mark Helprin
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. — Jane Smiley
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,… — Arundhati Roy
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth… — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.… — William James
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God… — Fred Rogers
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. — David S. Rose
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. — Gary Zukav
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power -… — Gary Zukav

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