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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking. -- Loni Anderson
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. -- Rick Moody
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. -- Aleister Crowley
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. -- Karl Marx
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. -- Benjamin Franklin
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. -- David Gross
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. -- Theodor Adorno
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. -- Jeanne Moreau
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
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
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. -- Peter Benenson
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end. -- James Lasdun
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
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
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. -- Kevin DeYoung
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world. -- Lauren Beukes
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. -- Martin Jacques
The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
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. -- Joseph Roux
Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche. -- Martin Seligman
Loudness is impotence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ireland need fresh impotence. -- Phil Babb
The impotence of God is infinite. -- Anatole France
Violence is a symptom of impotence. -- Anais Nin
Violence is an expression of impotence. -- Hannah Arendt
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. -- Edgar Friedenberg
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure. -- Julien Torma
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. -- Ayn Rand
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. -- George Santayana
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox. -- Hannah Arendt
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. -- Honore de Balzac
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty. -- J. I. Packer
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. -- Peter L. Berger
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. -- Carlos Fuentes
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. -- Winston Churchill
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything. -- Henry Miller
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. -- Aaron Hill
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere! -- Rose Pastor Stokes
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ... -- Hannah Arendt
I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice. -- John Green
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. -- Paul Valery
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. -- Jeremy Collier
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. -- Tony Bishop
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. -- Robert M. Lindner
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear. -- Tucker Max
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you. -- Anselm of Canterbury
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity -- Gilles Deleuze
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved. -- Bertrand Russell
We live by actionâ??by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to wantâ??whether geniuses or beggarsâ??are related by impotence. -- Fernando Pessoa
Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit. -- Samuel Chadwick
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise. -- John Wilmot
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence. -- Jacob Epstein
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself. -- Paul Gauguin
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating for the impotence of individual resistance. -- Zygmunt Bauman
As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment. -- Wright Morris
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold. -- Honore de Balzac
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. -- Arthur Symons
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance. -- Claude Monet
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence. -- T. S. Eliot
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. -- John Fowles
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence. -- Henry A. Kissinger
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. -- Erica Jong
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art. -- Samuel Beckett
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect. -- Paul Valery
In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ's blood, Christ's gospel, Christ's church, and Christ's expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays "?bottled up', confined to the historical skins of Palestine. -- Gary North
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality. -- Michael Gungor
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose. -- Joseph Weizenbaum
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

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