Absolute Powerlessness Quotes

#1. You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness.
Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein
said everything had changed since the atom was split,
except the way we think. We have to think anew.

Studs Terkel

#2. If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

#3. The triumph of the will recreates, as its Utopia, the world of early childhood, and that is a world of nightmare, impotence and fear, in which the child fantasises, out of its own powerlessness, an absolute supremacy.

Angela Carter

#4. Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

#5. I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

Cory Lidle

#6. Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

Henri Nouwen

#7. Did you check the catalog?

The Searcher

#8. I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's ... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Diahann Carroll