Powerlessness Quotations

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

Powerlessness and silence go together.

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.