Powerless Quotes

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

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.

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.

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.

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.

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

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

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 grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

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.

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.

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

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

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

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.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.