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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ↗

— Harry Shearer

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ↗

— Paulo Freire

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Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless. ↗

— Robert Casey

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People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ↗

— Blaine Lee

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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

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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. ↗

— Thom Yorke

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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

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