Powerless Quotes - Page 5

• They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Vocabulary, Dialogue

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Allies, Moral

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

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• It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

  Russell Brand

  Lying, People, Drunk

  "Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery". Book by Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader, www.npr.org. August 23, 2016.

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• 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.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Feelings, Stones, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Death, Fall

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Alas! is even love too weak
  To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
  Are even lovers powerless to reveal
  To one another what indeed they feel?
  I knew the mass of men conceal'd
  Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
  They would by other men be met
  With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
  I knew they lived and moved
  Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
  Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet
  The same heart beats in every human breast!

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Heart, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Eye, Perspective

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• 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.

  William Graham Sumner

  Destiny, Political, Over You

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• 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.

  Guy Finley

  Sad, Past, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 20, 2014

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• May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Children, Thinking

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• Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless, it can neither see nor hear. And in time of trouble, it is powerless to cheer. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Natalie

  Friendship, Cheer, True Friend

  "Boarding House Blues". "Compass" with Geraldine Doogue, www.abc.net.au. February 08, 2004.

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Son, Focus

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• And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love Is, Treasure, Want

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• The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the

  Roy Barnes

  Law, Justice, Clubs

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

  Herophilos

  Art, Health, Bad Ass

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• 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.

  John Legend

  People, Littles, Way

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• Without joy in your life you are powerless.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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

  Gerard De Nerval

  Science, Atoms, Might

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• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• 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.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Enemy, Body

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• To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental facts, which are the materials of science, he must also clearly understand the scientific principles which guide his reasoning through the varied experimental study of natural phenomena. We cannot separate these two things: head and hand. An able hand, without a head to direct it, is a blind tool; the head is powerless without its executive hand.

  Claude Bernard

  Art, Science, Two

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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

  A. C. Benson

  Overcoming, Helping, Sometimes

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