Impotent
Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.
Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.
One who is imoitent.
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Impotent Quotations
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Tony Robbins
Law, without force, is impotent.
Blaise Pascal
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Ella Maillart
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
Cary Grant
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
Nicolas Malebranche
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
Ted Rall
Impotent Translations
impotent in Dutch is impotent
impotent in Hungarian is impotens
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