Best Powerless Quotes

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. 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.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

In the end, the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised – and it should be.

Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

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.

We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.

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.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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.

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

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.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

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.

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.

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.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

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.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

Unlike a lot of people, I don’t feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it’s not about being special. It’s about deciding to do it – to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

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.

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we’re not bothered by these.

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

I can’t overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I’m powerless over those things, yet this doesn’t mean that I can’t act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.

I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.