Definition of Impotent

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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

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Tony Robbins

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

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Law, without force, is impotent.
Blaise Pascal

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

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

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
Frantz Fanon

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
Cary Grant

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Ella Maillart

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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