Impotence Quotes

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.