Definition of Powerless

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Definition of Powerless
	Powerless Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. Related Definitions: Able, Any, Destitute, Effect, Energy, Force, Impotent, Not, Of, Or, Power, Produce, To, Weak

Powerless Quotations

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

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

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp

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

Powerless Translations

powerless in French is impuissant
powerless in German is machtlos, machtlosen, kraftlos
powerless in Hungarian is tehetetlen
powerless in Italian is impotente
powerless in Spanish is impotente

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