Powerless Quotes

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.