#impotence

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

#ego #embarrassment #impotence #knowing #longer

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

#feel #freedom #help #impotence #international

Intolerance is evidence of impotence. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#impotence #intolerance

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#fully #impotence #only #rich #sick

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#areas #battery #behind #caused #china

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #cloak #cover #hearts #impotence

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#deal #human #human mind #impotence #mind

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#condemning #dead #death #easy #impotence

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

#call #every #father #friend #here