Impotence Quotes
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.
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
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.
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.
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.
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
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.
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.
The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.