A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
Robert Casey

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

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Susie Orbach

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
Adam Arkin

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

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

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno

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