#impotence

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#followers #hitler #humanity #impotence #love

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#areas #battery #behind #caused #china

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #cloak #cover #hearts #impotence

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#asia #cause #deficiency #desired #difficulties

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cigarette smoking #hazards #impotence #major #smoking

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#ego #embarrassment #impotence #knowing #longer

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#fully #impotence #only #rich #sick

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#guilt #impotence #iraq-war #leftism #pathology

Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been swayed at the last moment by his queen, the beautiful Henrietta Maria. We can believe Cromwell's claim that the queen told her husband to be firm. But the wicked, spiteful, altogether irresistable quote often attributed to her by Puritan writers of the time is almost certainly false. "Oh my love, if you cannot remain firm in the bedchamber, at least try to remain firm with your subjects! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#impotence #beauty