Individual Powerlessness Quotes

Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But this excuse cannot work for large numbers. Just imagine 10 million US citizens saying in unison: "I am just one powerless citizen. There is nothing I can do to change my government's policies!"

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

No matter how many shows or how much work we do, we are not going to make a difference. It's only the masses that will make a difference.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.