Powerless Quotes
We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
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.
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
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.
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him
You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.
Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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.
Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
