77 Quotes About Powerlessness

... enveloping her in the peace that comes from knowing your own powerlessness.

Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.

However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.

I know how to make myself happy, but I don't know how to make you happy.

A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

Power consists in making oneself the goal of another person's social instincts, without seeking to satisfy one's own social instincts through him. The other then does everything one asks. Powerlessness consists in wanting or having to satisfy one's social instincts through another person whose social instincts one has not succeeded in concentrating on oneself - one then does everything the other asks.