Impotence Quotes

• All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Weakness

  Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”

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• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  Aleister Crowley

  Intolerance, Evidence, Fetish

  Aleister Crowley, (2013). “The Writings of the Great Beast - Some Short Stories by Aleister Crowley (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Fake People, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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  To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

  Cary Grant

  Relationship, Money, Sex

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• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  Loni Anderson

  Smoking, Hazards, Cigarette

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Poverty, Helping, Problem

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• The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Appearance, Symptoms

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing

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• Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

  Winston Churchill

  Exercise, Power, Lust

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• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  Karl Marx

  Atheist, Mind, Deals

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• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  Salman Rushdie

  Nature, Fate, Firsts

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

  Norman Mailer

  Knowing, World, Wave

  "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.

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• What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

  J. I. Packer

  Praying, Sovereignty

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

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• What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Unhappiness, Determine, Persons

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• Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

  Robert Briffault

  Ignorance, Government, Order

  Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

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• To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

  Hannah Arendt

  Witty, Power, Speak

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

  Simone Weil

  Moving, Cutting, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Running, Wish, Energy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

  Gilles Deleuze

  Vanity, Depth, Draws

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

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• It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

  Hannah Arendt

  Violence, Arise, Powerlessness

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  J. William Fulbright

  Feelings, Excess, Asia

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.32, Random House

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• Loudness is impotence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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