Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives?
Christopher FowlerTags: wealth violence statistics poverty crime status british habits motives crime-solving powerless
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: integrity eating powerless factory-farm
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
Mike NortonTags: power war fate strategy risk control destiny measure powerlessness powerless equation factor stratagem
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.
We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.
The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.
The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.
And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.
Tags: power choice world heroism action actions save choices hero powerlessness act heroine impotence ability saving acts savior empowered helpless powerless helpessness impotent
You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.
Charlotte LambTags: touch panic attraction ordinary powerless
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Sumit LakhaniTags: fear truth success powerless
You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.
Israelmore AyivorTags: strength power strong god sun dark moon darkness weak weakness salvation sacrifice jesus-christ redemption powerful christ eclipse likeness god-s-love redeemer powerless eclipse-of-the-moon calvary cross-of-calvary eclipse-of-the-sun golgatha
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