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#powerlessness

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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

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.


Michael Jeffery


#atrocity #collectively #evening #evening news #feeling

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?


Harry Shearer


#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupts #does

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.


Theodor Adorno


#complete #his #individual #left #live

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

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

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.


Louise Erdrich


#powerlessness #witnessing #life

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.


Shakti Gawain


#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#exhaustion #power #powerlessness #tried #life






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