Quotes about Powerless

Powerless rage can work miracles. Votes: 3

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue. Votes: 3

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. Votes: 3

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Votes: 3

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. Votes: 3

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Votes: 3

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before. Votes: 3

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Votes: 3

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Votes: 3

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? Votes: 3

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. Votes: 3

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Votes: 3

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. Votes: 3

That's love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down. Votes: 3

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 because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Votes: 3

Excessive fear is always powerless. Votes: 2

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian. Votes: 2

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. Votes: 2

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Votes: 2

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Votes: 2

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Votes: 2

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power Votes: 2

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus Votes: 2

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head Votes: 2

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. Votes: 2

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them Votes: 2

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar. Votes: 2

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. Votes: 2

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting. Votes: 2

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless. Votes: 1

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. Votes: 1

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. Votes: 1

We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena. Votes: 1

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 take charge of it. Votes: 1

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. Votes: 1

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless. Votes: 1

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves. Votes: 1

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. Votes: 1

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go. Votes: 1

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 which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age. Votes: 1

Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet. Votes: 1

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. Votes: 1

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such. Votes: 1

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Votes: 1

I am not powerless. Votes: 0

The powerless worship Luck and Fate. Votes: 0

Public radio has always been so powerless. Votes: 0

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless. Votes: 0

Dreams are powerless unless they are specific. Votes: 0

Without joy in your life you are powerless. Votes: 0

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. Votes: 0

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless. Votes: 0

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. Votes: 0

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Votes: 0

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. Votes: 0

Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar. Votes: 0

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. Votes: 0

Why should my love be powerless to help another? Votes: 0

If you think you are powerless, then you are Votes: 0

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness. Votes: 0

Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations. Votes: 0

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. Votes: 0

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it. Votes: 0

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference. Votes: 0

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit. Votes: 0

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity. Votes: 0

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard. Votes: 0

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. Votes: 0

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. Votes: 0

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Votes: 0

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. Votes: 0

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not. Votes: 0

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting. Votes: 0

Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful. Votes: 0

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless. Votes: 0

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. Votes: 0

For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong.. Votes: 0

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. Votes: 0

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself. Votes: 0

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless. Votes: 0

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money. Votes: 0

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. Votes: 0

To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless Votes: 0

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless. Votes: 0

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. Votes: 0

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. Votes: 0

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. Votes: 0

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless. Votes: 0

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. Votes: 0

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. Votes: 0

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. Votes: 0

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow. Votes: 0

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him Votes: 0

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place. Votes: 0

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. Votes: 0

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. Votes: 0

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. Votes: 0

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this. Votes: 0

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless. Votes: 0

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it. Votes: 0

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment. Votes: 0

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. Votes: 0

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills. Votes: 0

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. Votes: 0

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her. Votes: 0

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. Votes: 0

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one. Votes: 0

The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the Votes: 0

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. Votes: 0

Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless! Votes: 0

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. Votes: 0

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life. Votes: 0

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless. Votes: 0

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. Votes: 0

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. Votes: 0

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Votes: 0

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws. Votes: 0

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children. Votes: 0

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. Votes: 0

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion. Votes: 0

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that. Votes: 0

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless. Votes: 0

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it." Votes: 0

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything! Votes: 0

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. Votes: 0

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. Votes: 0

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. Votes: 0

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice. Votes: 0

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless. Votes: 0

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. Votes: 0

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. Votes: 0

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it. Votes: 0

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless. Votes: 0

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Votes: 0

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be? Votes: 0

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. Votes: 0

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers. Votes: 0

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. Votes: 0

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization. Votes: 0

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless. Votes: 0

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth. Votes: 0

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. Votes: 0

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect. Votes: 0

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered. Votes: 0

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it. Votes: 0

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. Votes: 0

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration. Votes: 0

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. Votes: 0

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless. Votes: 0

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice. Votes: 0

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. Votes: 0

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. Votes: 0

We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it. Votes: 0

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient. Votes: 0

A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. Votes: 0

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone. Votes: 0

He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for. Votes: 0

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. Votes: 0

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. Votes: 0

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes. Votes: 0

You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it. Votes: 0

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well. Votes: 0

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.' Votes: 0

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without. Votes: 0

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well. Votes: 0

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. Votes: 0

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith. Votes: 0

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time. Votes: 0

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both. Votes: 0

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him Votes: 0

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . . Votes: 0

Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless. Votes: 0

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death. Votes: 0

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them. Votes: 0

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else. Votes: 0

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects... Votes: 0

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless. Votes: 0

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless. Votes: 0

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted Votes: 0

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation. Votes: 0

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. Votes: 0

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 its whole weight. Votes: 0

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 change of worlds. Votes: 0

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire. Votes: 0

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, earth and sea obey Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence. Votes: 0

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you. Votes: 0

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 reason and purpose. Votes: 0

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time. Votes: 0

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter. Votes: 0

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them. Votes: 0

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 movie. It's kind of fluffy. Votes: 0

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get. Votes: 0

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, then ... pick out his brains. Votes: 0

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices. Votes: 0

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich. Votes: 0

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless. Votes: 0

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. Votes: 0

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term. Votes: 0

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them. Votes: 0

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them. Votes: 0

All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism. Votes: 0

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways. Votes: 0

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Votes: 0

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside. Votes: 0

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless. Votes: 0

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. Votes: 0

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity. Votes: 0

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike. Votes: 0

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine. Votes: 0

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed. Votes: 0

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen. Votes: 0

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track. Votes: 0

Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail. Votes: 0

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. Votes: 0

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. Votes: 0

Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world. Votes: 0

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world. Votes: 0

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies... Votes: 0

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat. Votes: 0

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths. Votes: 0

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless. Votes: 0

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture. Votes: 0

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 resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us. Votes: 0