#powerless

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#powerlessness #providers #love

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

— Don DeLillo

#make #open #people #powerless #theater

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

#because #between #both #determined #divided

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

— Thomas Huxley

#against #away #else #everything #gnaws

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#justice #powerless #tyrannical #without

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#did #felt #fluffy #happened #hawaii

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ↗

— Erica Jong

#been #exploited #group #history #idealized

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