Definition of Powerless
	Powerless Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. Related Definitions: Able, Any, Destitute, Effect, Energy, Force, Impotent, Not, Of, Or, Power, Produce, To, Weak

Powerless Quotations Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Sigmund Freud Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. J. Edgar Hoover Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Quentin Crisp Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? Camille Paglia A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. Ramakrishna Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire

Powerless Translations powerless in French is impuissant powerless in German is machtlos, machtlosen, kraftlos powerless in Hungarian is tehetetlen powerless in Italian is impotente powerless in Spanish is impotente