Impotence Quotes

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. - Robert Lindner

We cannot be shocked into impotence because we're afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us. - Colin Powell

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. - Joseph Roux

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. - Theodor Adorno

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. - Peter Benenson

The impotence of God is infinite. - Anatole France

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. - August Strindberg

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. - J. William Fulbright

The alternative was absolute impotence. So people were eager to try it out, especially when the potential of failure presented no obvious downside. - Randy Nelson