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• 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

  Henry Hyde

  Mean, Abortion, Understanding

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• 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.

  Felix Adler

  Encouragement, Struggle, Water

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• Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

  Virgil

  Anger, Purpose, Rage

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• The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Trying, Males

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Powerful, Essence, Sacred Feminine

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Ideas, People, Temptation

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• Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.

  C. Sommerville

  Book, Eye, Successful

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• I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Responsibility, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• 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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Voice, Silence, World

  "INTERVIEW: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy, She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Harm, Knows

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• 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.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Awful, Comfort, Gowns

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• If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Passion, Incline, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 08, 2017

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• We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Way, Satan

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Fighting, Government

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

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

  Gore Vidal

  Class, Majority, Problem

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.45, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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

  Derrick Jensen

  Mean, Agency, Longing

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

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• Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Pulpit, Produce

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• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Smart, Information Flow, Information Sharing

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Doubt, Doe

  Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  People, World, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Soul, Logic

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• In the end, the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Whistleblowers, Administration

  "Edward Snowden: Obama guilty of deceit over extradition" by Dan Roberts, Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2013.

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• When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Truth, Knowledge

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216

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• Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

  Melody Beattie

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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