Top Powerlessness Quotes
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor Adorno
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
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer 
58% of people like this quote
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn
58% of people like this quote
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor Adorno
53% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
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
49% of people like this quote
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno
49% of people like this quote
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
47% of people like this quote
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Susie Orbach
47% of people like this quote
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
Robert Casey
46% of people like this quote
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
41% of people like this quote
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