“ If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ”
- Gary North- Copy
- 2.4K
“ They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 4K
“ The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.2K
“ So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.3K
“ People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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. ”
- Lord Clarendon- Copy
- 482
“ And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help — for it rolls impotently on as thou or I. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail. ”
- Eric Clark- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise. ”
- Robert Bennett- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos… ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men. ”
- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt- Copy
- 807
“ The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
- 1.7K
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