Words matter. These are the best Powerlessness Quotes from famous people such as Mary Beard, Angelina Jolie, Louis XIV, Martha Beck, Leila Slimani, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we’re afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
Let’s stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that’s only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen – there was a real sense of powerlessness.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.
There’s simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it’s the whole picture that counts.
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
If we give up on politics, we’re done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
I think in the case of horror, it’s a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power – every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe – is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.
The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it’s often a metaphor for human powerlessness over the world.
Who doesn’t love ‘Frogger?’ It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog’s anxiety in the face of the world’s intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
