Powerless Quotes

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

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.

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.

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

Powerless rage can work miracles.

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

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.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.