Quotes with impotence

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

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  • Napoleon Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Aleister Crowley Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Henry Miller Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aaron Hill Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Salman Rushdie 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
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • August Strindberg The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Roux 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
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Robert M. Lindner What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Simone Weil 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
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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