Quotes About Impotent

The little fellow had been about to feel himself a conqueror, and he found himself held within two imprisoning arms, impotent. The expression of joy, anxiety, and hope, which had interested me so much faded from his face and left on it the stupid expression of the child who knows that others will act for him.

Diplomacy without politics is ultimately impotent.

Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom to direct their impotent rage.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.