Sense of Powerlessness Quotes

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two after the Narvarte murders. Many of us have grown familiar with that feeling. Every few weeks or so it seems we're hit with some new crime or some new corruption scandal that isn't quite the same as a massacre, but that spawns a feeling of futility and despair in its own way.

What we really need to understand here is that it's all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for Bernie Sanders. In some ways, it's a very different - it's a different surge, but it's coming out of the same sort of sense of fundamental powerlessness and anger and frustration for Donald Trump.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.