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Tag Name "Powerless" (230)

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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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One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.
Zachary Cole Smith
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Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. Benson
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In the end, the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
Edward Snowden
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
Henri Nouwen
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Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
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The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
Dan Simmons
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when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus
Corrie Ten Boom
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My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.
Matt Papa
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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
Jo Brand
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I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.
Lily King
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
Friedrich Engels
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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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Why should my love be powerless to help another?
George MacDonald
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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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Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.
Gaspar Noe
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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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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Rollo May
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We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.
Iyanla Vanzant
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My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that, and to know when that happens, Oh, something's going on that's making me feel this way, and if I force my body open a bit, I will feel less powerless.
Amy Cuddy
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I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
Libba Bray
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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.
Whitney Chadwick
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