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  • Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

    Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press
  • Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

    Morning   Fun   Sleep  
    William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.31, Open Road Media
  • It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
  • Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

  • As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

    Long   Wave   Easy  
  • One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to penalize anti-social acts; actually their aim is to penalize heretical opinions. At least ninety-five Americans out of every 100 believe that this process is honest and even laudable; it is practically impossible to convince them that there is anything evil in it. In other words, they cannot grasp the concept of liberty.

    Business   Believe   Law  
    "Liberty and Democracy". Baltimore Evening Sun (April 13, 1925) as quoted in "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit" edited by Terry Teachout (p. 35), 1994.
  • What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

    J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.18, InterVarsity Press
  • Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

    Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.33, U of Minnesota Press
  • Ireland need fresh impotence.

  • 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.

    Nature   Fate   Firsts  
    Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
  • If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

  • Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

    Beautiful   Pride   Loss  
  • The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

    Running   Spiritual   Age  
  • The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

    Men   Use   Bullets  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.224, Harvard University Press
  • Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

    Revenge   Men   Desire  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.33, New Directions Publishing
  • The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

    Pain   Dark   Light  
    Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc
  • I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

    Effort   Green   Cynicism  
    John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
  • Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

    Heart   Men   Victory  
  • Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

    George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.37, The Floating Press
  • Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.50, e-artnow
  • Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

    "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.
  • A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

    Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
  • There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

    Song   Book   Writing  
    "Foma Gordeyev". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1899.
  • The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

    Art   Reality   Ideas  
    Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
  • Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

  • I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

    Weakness   Chance   Blame  
    Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell
  • The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.56, Penguin
  • Violence is an expression of impotence.

  • Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

    Giving   Voting   News  
    Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.69, Penguin
  • It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

    Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster
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