86 Quotes About Powerless

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one’s fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.

It's one thing to be powerless and another to be useless.

Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I make it is what it makes me.

Lack of prayer maketh a powerless people.

Let us not fall prey to the leaching negativity and rank pessimism that runs unleashed all around us. Rather, with the utmost determination we must bring ourselves to understand that these lies have been given legitimacy by people who thought themselves as powerless in the face of them, rather than recognizing that we have the power to rip the face off of them.

Actions can be evil: the inversion of truth, power inflicted on the powerless, violence on the full spectrum of psychological to physical, subtle to unsubtle: all these acts, in the right context, can be defined as evil.

He no longer felt helplessness. He felt powerful. And that was what scared him.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.