Helpless Quotes

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing, Ether, Binge

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, Culture

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

Greatest, Lost, Christian

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

War, Evil, America

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
Ted Nugent

Choose, Guest, Unarmed

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, True, Care

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Help, Everything, Wants

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

Great, Men, Government

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck

Fear, Society, Young

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education, Strength, Reason

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Kin Hubbard

Sick, Goldfish, Owner

The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides

Bold, Cleverness

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Anne Grant

Confusion, Sense, Hopeless

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

Women, Men, Business

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot

Hope, Care, Child

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling

Others, Advantage, Oneself

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe

History, Made, Enough

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner

Society, Individual, Early

Victims always feel alone and helpless.
Deepak Chopra

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
Jean Kerr

Coffee, Start, Hand

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee

Age, Wisdom, Children

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot

Trust, Children, Wish

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
Christina Aguilera

Women, Deep, Learned

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
Gertrude Jekyll

Good, Respect, Brain

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

Government, Wise, Sense

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
Moshe Sharett

Feeling, Before, Depressed

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
Mos Def

Hate, Nobody, Conditions

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong

Success, Religion, Death

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Ramakrishna

Love, Work, God

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Richard Steele

Sex, Woman, Sense

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