Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally
nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
Santayana George 1863-1952
Man is as full of potentiality as he of impotence.
Waugh Evelyn 1903-1966
‘An Open Letter'
Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.
Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift,
solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Wunderlich Paul
I refuse to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself,you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.