Lack of agency Quotes

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Most [Arab] people are very pleased that he is out, but they are embarrassed that they didn't do it and that it was done for them.

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.

Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.