Powerless Quotes

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

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.

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.

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.

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.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

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.

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

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

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.

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