Impotence Quotes
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It is not their love for men, rather it is the impotence of their love that hinders Christians of today from burning us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.
— Tarjei Vesaas
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ...
— Hannah Arendt
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
— Salman Rushdie
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
— Jeremy Collier
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
— Hannah Arendt
I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything
— Kazeem Olalekan
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.
— Henry Miller
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
— George Santayana
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
— Rick Moody
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
— Bertrand Russell
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
— Jeanne Moreau
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Violence is an expression of impotence.
— Hannah Arendt
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
— Aaron Hill
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
— Carlos Fuentes
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
— Anais Nin
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
— Robert M. Lindner
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
— Winston Churchill
Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
— Loni Anderson
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
— Aleister Crowley
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.
— Victor Hugo
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
— Karl Marx
Violence is any day preferable to impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The impotence of God is infinite.
— Anatole France
What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?
— Tarjei Vesaas
We live by action - by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want - whether geniuses or beggars - are related by impotence.
— Fernando Pessoa
He wasn't physically impotent. So the impotence must lie in his soul. Finding oblivion in a moment's ecstasy was all he could manage.
— Carsten Jensen
It was as though the Saposcats drew the strength to live from the prospect of their impotence.
— Samuel Beckett
Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence
— Robert Harris
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
— Anselm Of Canterbury
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
— Gilles Deleuze
The whole world seemed to unroll like a pornographic film whose tragic theme is impotence.
— Henry Miller
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!
— Rose Pastor Stokes
I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.
— John Green
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.
— Tony Bishop
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
— Peter L. Berger
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
— Edgar Friedenberg
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
— Vicki Pettersson
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.
— Paul Valery
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
— Honore De Balzac
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
— Benjamin Franklin
Loudness is impotence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater