Powerless Quotes

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.

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

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.

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

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

Without joy in your life you are powerless.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

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

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.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.