Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.
Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless. . . and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.
If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.