#powerless

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

— Don DeLillo

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

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

#powerlessness #saying #self-denial #way

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless. ↗

— Suze Orman

#choose #money #powerful #powerless #shows

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#anything #embodied #even #free #god

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. ↗

— Robert Casey

#awful #common #common good #ever #felt

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

— Quentin Crisp

#finding #hand #intelligence #modify #powerless

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#child #day #feel #may #one day

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#helplessness #human-nature #humility #power #powerlessness