Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

More noise occurs from a single man shouting than a hundred thousand who are quiet.

How little authority I have

We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

People only attack when they see weakness or when they think that someone is ashamed of it or embarrassed and they can't wait to stick it to 'em.

Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn’t I?” he said heatedly. “I know what went on, all right? And I didn’t get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because — because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right — but I just blundered through it all, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing — STOP LAUGHING!

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!

Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.