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#powerlessness

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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

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

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.


Margaret Atwood


#fully #gift #go #human #possible

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


#chance #confront #fears #horror #i

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.


Maggie Kuhn


#few #hands #many #power #powerlessness

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#powerlessness #marriage

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


#cycle #deep #democracy #drop #elections

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


Susie Orbach


#powerlessness #saying #self-denial #way

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






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