Powerless Quotes
Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.
Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
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 the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.
I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past.
As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.
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 not bothered by these.
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 to properly manage them.
I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.
If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.
If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.
You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.
When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them.
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war
Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conducting dust to dust rites in the burial grounds.
If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us
That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love.
For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
