#powerless

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#did #felt #fluffy #happened #hawaii

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect. ↗

— William Thomas Stead

#effect #every #individual #power #powerless

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#powerful #powerless #satire #traditionally #weapon

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#powerlessness #witnessing #life

Excessive fear is always powerless. ↗

— Aeschylus

#always #excessive #fear #powerless

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

— Theodor Adorno

#insoluble #neither #nor #others #our

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #myself #powerless #probably #queen

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#over #powerless #risk #something #trying

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#anything #brutal #cold #cold war #cynical

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had