Powerlessness Quotes - Page 4

• A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

  Haruki Murakami

  States, Persons, Aomame

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.146, Random House

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• Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Female, Sexism

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Abuse, Doe

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• What we really need to understand here is that it`s all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for Bernie Sanders. In some ways, it`s a very different - it`s a different surge, but it`s coming out of the same sort of sense of fundamental powerlessness and anger and frustration for Donald Trump.

  Robert Reich

  Frustration, Different, Needs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Knowledge, Thinking, Race

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• ...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Past, Today, Injustice

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• I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Cancer, Heart

  "My Medical Choice" by Angelina Jolie, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2013.

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• You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Errors, Enlightenment, Saws

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• ... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be okay. No wonder people pay so much attention to knowing the rules, to knowing the right people, to not making waves, to never making errors -- to not risking, trying, innovating.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Knowing, Errors, People

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• Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Odds, Organization

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• The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth.  Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

  Brennan Manning

  Powerful, Sight, Nerd

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• "Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ocean, Ideas, Sometimes

  "Neil Gaiman interview: The year of living crazily". Interview with David Barnett, www.independent.co.uk. June 9, 2013.

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• he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

  Andrew Saul

  Teacher, Doctors, Voters

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• Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Kissing, Dope

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• their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

  Mark Helprin

  Animal, Wind, Imagination

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

  Peter Singer

  Needs, Poverty, States

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Years, Feelings

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.437, A&C Black

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• All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Comforting, Might

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.281, Open Road Media

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• To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

  William James

  Effort, Spirit, Impossible

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Father, Son

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.17, NavPress

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• To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Men, Poor Decisions, Worry

  A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.139, Macmillan

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• I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Love, Trust, Self

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.181, Prabhat Prakashan

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• A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Views, Vision, Helping

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.288, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Interest

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• It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Would Be, Way, Impossible

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