Powerless Quotes - Page 2

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Being Strong, Military, Men

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Trust, Time, Truth

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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

  Anuj

  Powerful, Love Is, Stronger

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• Excessive fear is always powerless.

  Aeschylus

  Power

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Witty, Sex, Regret

  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 6 Oct 1980.

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• Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Self, Apathy, Defense

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• Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

  Gary Zukav

  Relationship, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 03, 2015

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• We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Use, World, Firsts

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• In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

  Jules Verne

  Men

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island”, p.725, BookRix

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

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Pain, Possibility, Knows

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• Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

  Lech Walesa

  Important, Instruments

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• The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

  Mason Cooley

  Fate, Luck, Worship

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• Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Agency, Long

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• The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Revenge, Punishment

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  David Eagleman

  Fleeing, Creation, Ends

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.19, Canongate Books

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• It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both.

  James A. Baldwin

  Suicidal, Mean, Ideas

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• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Real, Struggle, People

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. 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.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Real, Responsibility, Thinking

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• 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.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Bullying, Boss, Promise

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• You said you were a victim. That's why...that's why ultimately, you and I aren't matched for each other. In spite of everything that's happened, I've never though of myself that way. Being a victim means you're powerless. That you won't take action. Always...always I've done something to fight for myself...for others. No matter what.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Fighting, Done

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• It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.

  Martin Schulz

  Financial, Debate, Stealing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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