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

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
Hans Frank

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

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.
Irene Cara

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

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover

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

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
William Thomas Stead

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

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

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.
Robert Casey

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Daphne Zuniga

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo

Public radio has always been so powerless.
Bob Edwards

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Lydia Lunch