Quotes About Powerless

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

there was nothing I could do for her, or for Miller either.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

And with the final question, "Why didn't they fight back?" came the inevitable dismissal. "Because it would not have made a difference.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed. I remember never believing that whites were really real.

He felt strangled by helplessness.

When a man cannot fight he should curse. The gods like to feel needed.

Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

When we think about how frightening a place the world is, and how rampant and pervasive evil is, and how helpless we feel to do anything about those things, we can drive ourselves crazy with concern.

Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.

If traumatic disorders are afflictions of the powerless, then empowerment must be a central principle of recovery.

Does anger empower me in a powerless situation? If so, can I find another source of strength?

Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

We would venture to say that the opposite of fear is not a lack of fear but trust. Somewhere deep down all of us know we're powerless to change things or truly protect children the way we long to. But we don't want to parent out of fear. When we do, the emphasis is more on preventing than on encouraging. It becomes more about control than it does relationship. It centers on what is wrong in the world rather than who you and your child can be in the midst of it.

Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality.

Neither she nor he was the same any more, yet they were searching for each other in a vain effort, fleeing one another, persisting in disembodied, powerless efforts like those black spectres at their feet.

All the bourgeois virtues, caution, obedience, zeal and thoughtfulness- they all melt away powerless in the fire of the great fateful moment that always demands only genius and forms it into a a lasting image. Contemptuously it repulses the timid man; it, another god of the earth, with fiery arms, lifts only the bold into the heaven of heroes.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Secrets turn powerless in the open air.

Since I was a kid, I've always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?