#powerless

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Erica Jong

#been #exploited #group #history #idealized

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

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