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Tag Name "Powerless" (228)

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Powerless rage can work miracles.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Roger Cohen
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Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
Warren Farrell
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Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Ronald Reagan
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Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.
Wesley L Duewel
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The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the
Roy Barnes
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If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
William Graham Sumner
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love die in Love if you want to remain alive.
Rumi
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It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
William Thomas Stead
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The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.
Yukio Mishima
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
Sara Zarr
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Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
Sheryl Sandberg
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Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.
Stuart Duncan
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Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
Suze Orman
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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
T. S. Eliot
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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
Thom Yorke
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
Thomas Aquinas
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Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.
Richard Hammond
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One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But this excuse cannot work for large numbers. Just imagine 10 million US citizens saying in unison: I am just one powerless citizen. There is nothing I can do to change my government's policies!
Thomas Pogge
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
Richard Wright
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