Powerlessness Quotes

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. - Erica Jong

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat. - Charles Caleb Colton

We need to make judgments, of course - to observe what works and what doesn't, but not to be judgmental. Being judgmental is a form of madness that screams powerlessness and ruthlessness. When we can make good judgments and update them and not stay rigid, we come from goodwill and promote goodwill back to us. - Patricia Sun

Understanding the needs of people is the first step towards victory. People need to see we have the right vision, values and policies. But the bottom line is that to stay in power we have to release power. We know that the new enemy is a sense of powerlessness. - David Miliband

These subsidies would ... reduce the unemployment rate of low-skilled workers; put the paychecks of low-wage workers closer to the median scale; decrease the unemployed worker's feelings of exclusion, dependence and powerlessness; inculcate the habits of self-efficacy and self-sufficiency; and increase employees' incentive to better themselves. - Al Gini

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. - Ralph Nader

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. - Theodor Adorno

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. - Maggie Kuhn

No one has been more directly affected by the activities of Mr. Bernardo and Ms. Teale than my clients... Their powerlessness, their anguish is so deep it's beyond words. - Tim Danson

It's just a more uncertain world out there... There is more of a possibility of losing something, a loved one or a child. Maybe too there's an increasing sense of powerlessness, that we don't have as much control over the world as we used to five or 10 years ago. - Piers Handling