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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 king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness ... — Audre Lorde

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. — Erica Jong

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play — Thomas Hardy

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

But folks always underestimate what the promise of a lifetime of starvation, powerlessness, and humiliation can provoke in a young person's character. — Junot Diaz

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

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness — Dennis Prager

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

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness — Adrienne Rich

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work. — Daniel Yankelovich

Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. — Mark Helprin

poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience. — James I. Charlton

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. — Gary Zukav

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

As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power. — Erich Fromm

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance? — Alison Weir

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

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

Perhaps the human lesson is always submission. We have a choice: to rebel or to recognize our powerlessness while maintaining our faith. — Anne Truitt

The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness. — William Gibson

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

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is. — Fred Rogers

God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness. — Rob Bell

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

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. — Quinn Norton