Powerless Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

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

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.

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.

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.

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.

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.

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