People Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Power Powerless Waiting
The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
Those who are a danger to the society being resentful and uncooperative are themselves the most powerless ones, they are so because they suffer… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
The problem for many people isn't that they lack personal power and discipline. It is that they have already invested it in agreements about… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. — Blaine Lee Copy Share Image
The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission. — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
