#powerless

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

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#against #away #else #everything #gnaws

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#being #circulating #did #ever #invested

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty

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

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

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#authorized #been #case #certain #constitution

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

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#idea #long #men #oppose #powerless

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

— Molly Ivins

#powerful #powerless #satire #traditionally #weapon