Lack of Power Quotes

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Childhood can be hell. One reason … is that as a child you have no power.

I don't have a superpower.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.

For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground like so many artists, hand-to-mouth and so forth. And I never had the power to make decisions.

When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

The essential traits of a leaker are an abundance of information and a lack of power.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

How little authority I have

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.