Top 157 Impotence Quotes & Sayings

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

Ireland need fresh impotence.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Violence is an expression of impotence.

The impotence of God is infinite.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Loudness is impotence.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

I call it financial impotence, this notion of not having enough money, because it has the same characteristics as sexual impotence. And men will never talk about sexual impotence, no matter how close you are to someone, but financial impotence is an even greater barrier. And, I broke that omerta. I had people walk up to me in the grocery store - Several people, coming up to me and saying, "Gosh. Let me tell you my story." People are so pent up with their sense of financial impotence, that they're dying to get it out!

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.