Top 544 Powerless Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 10, 2024.
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.
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.
I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.
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.
I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power
Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
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
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.
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
My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.
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.
What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
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.
No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.
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. . . .
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
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
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.
Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.
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.
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.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior.
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.
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
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.
The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
I'm a health nut who likes to work out every day, but I am powerless when it comes to Yorkshire pudding, pizza and ice cream.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.
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.
I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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.
Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.
Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
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.
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
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.
