Quotes About Powerless

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Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, without Indigenous peoples' consent, invested Indigenous funds in railroad companies and various municipal and state bonds. For instance, the Cherokee national fund and the Muskogee Creek Orphan Fund were so invested. Indigenous leaders were well aware of these practices but were powerless to stop them.

True decadence wasn't anything carnal; it was about sacrificing the powerless minority for the sake of the majority.

The Israelis have shown a degree of restraint in their use of violence that the Nazis never contemplated and that, more to the point, no Muslim society would contemplate today. Ask yourself, what are the chances that the Palestinians would show the same restraint in killing Jews if the Jews were a powerless minority living under their occupation and disposed to acts of suicidal terrorism? It would be no more likely than Muhammad's flying to heaven on a winged horse.35

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot alter even an instant of the past.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.

They remained trapped in the position of small children who believe they love their parents but in fact allow themselves to be controlled all their lives by the internalized parents and ultimately develop some kind of illness that leads to premature death. Such dependency actively fosters the hatred that, though repressed, remains active, and it drives them to direct their aggression at innocent people. We only hate as long as we feel totally powerless.

memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.

But that's the thing about the pessimistic belief that we are powerless and we can't change anything. It's false.

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

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

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

Both of them lived in the grips of forces they had no control over--the November wind, the revolutions of the earth.

But the worst of it was the sense of helplessness — that events had taken over and I was being steered by them rather than the other way round.

The truth was important. The truth mattered. It mattered more than the fact that he was only twelve and that his story was completely preposterous. People like Granny, all bullies in fact, only managed to survive because they lived behind the truth. Once people knew them for what they were, they would be powerless.