#powerless

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. ↗

— Susie Orbach

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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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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#been #between #dissolve #distinction #eternal

Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. Sima Zian added, "I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#duty #foresight #future #powerlessness #imagination

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives? ↗

— Christopher Fowler

#crime #crime-solving #habits #motives #poverty

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation. ↗

— Adam Arkin

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