Definition of Powerless

Powerless

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

Related Definitions:

Able, Any, Destitute, Effect, Energy, Force, Impotent, Not, Of, Or, Power, Produce, To, Weak

Powerless Quotations

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Daphne Zuniga

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Ramakrishna

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.
Michelle Rodriguez

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
William Thomas Stead

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.
Robert Casey

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.
Robert Casey

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Lydia Lunch

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Patricia Sun

Public radio has always been so powerless.
Bob Edwards

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.
Josiah Warren

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
Hans Frank

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Powerless Translations

powerless in French is impuissant
powerless in German is machtlos, machtlosen, kraftlos
powerless in Hungarian is tehetetlen
powerless in Italian is impotente
powerless in Spanish is impotente

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