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Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one's powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies.
— Colson Whitehead
If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.
— Muriel Barbery
I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.
— Thom Yorke
God's is real power clothed in apparent powerlessness; Evil's is apparent power which is really powerlessness.
— David Jeremiah
Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass.
— Michael Connelly
The deeper and more debilitating form of powerlessness is to be cut off from making meaning.
— Andy Crouch
. . . there are two outlets for the frustration of that powerlessness: insanity and violence.
— Laura Bates
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
— Jane Smiley
The locust has no kingJust noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
— Erica Jong
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
— Warren Farrell
If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime?
— Lelouch Vi Britannia
NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness.
— Katie Alender
God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty.
— David Bentley Hart
When you have no real power, go public really public. The public is where the real power is. — Elizabeth Warren
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.
— Richard M. Weaver
She is a slave, with no way home.
— Heather Demetrios
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
— Kate Thompson
The terrible powerlessness of being unable to do anything except wait for mercy you couldn't earn and didn't deserve.
— Alexis Hall
What combats powerlessness? Power.
— Veronica Roth
Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
— Warren Farrell
For it was only with her that he'd ever felt that powerful powerlessness he knew was love.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.
— Bryant McGill
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
— Frances Moore Lappe
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
— Daniel Yankelovich
poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience.
— James I. Charlton
When we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.
— Walter Dean Myers
You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
— Haruki Murakami
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
— Theodor Adorno
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
— Peter Singer
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
— Margaret Atwood
Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing
— Shane Claiborne
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
— Paulo Freire
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Andrei Sakharov
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
— Robert Reich
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Robert Casey
The devil's attacks are proof of his powerlessness before us
— Sunday Adelaja
Luck is a light bulb that is switched on only once, after it switches off, it leaves a gap of regret and powerlessness
— Jasper Rules
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.
— Lionel Suggs
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
— Susie Orbach
Her only weapons were her tears.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
— Warren Farrell
The scenario made her hyperaware of her powerlessness. If, some day, the door didn't open, she would be alone.
— Laini Taylor
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
— Theodor Adorno
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
— Maggie Kuhn
Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.
— Carolyn Ives Gilman
Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness
— Chip Conley
