If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Albert CamusTag: history human-thought impotence
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.
Timothy B. TysonTag: love power humanity sin hitler followers impotence depravity mass-murder stalin moral-meaning
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.
Christopher HitchensTag: fear friends children death sex mothers misery idleness proust impotence anguish proust-questionnaire
[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.
Slavoj ŽižekTag: fate environment global-warming environmentalism reassurance guilt television football recycling fatalism catastrophe impotence organic-food 2010 2010-fifa-world-cup 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul paper-recycling
Tal como a disfunção eréctil, a disfunção intelectual, que afecta um número crescente de ilustres membros das elites intelectualóides, caracteriza-se pela impotência de manter erecto um pensamento coerente.
As the erectile dysfunction, intellectual dysfunction, which affects a growing number of distinguished members of the elites, is characterized by the impotence of keeping erect a coherent thought.
Tag: impotence disfunção-eréctil disfunção-intelectual erectile-dysfunction impotência intellectual-dysfunction
There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.
Christopher HitchensTag: psychology guilt self-hatred iraq-war war-on-terror impotence leftism pathology antiwar-movement
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.
Tag: power choice world heroism action actions save choices hero powerlessness act heroine impotence ability saving acts savior empowered helpless powerless helpessness impotent
Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been swayed at the last moment by his queen, the beautiful Henrietta Maria. We can believe Cromwell's claim that the queen told her husband to be firm. But the wicked, spiteful, altogether irresistable quote often attributed to her by Puritan writers of the time is almost certainly false.
"Oh my love, if you cannot remain firm in the bedchamber, at least try to remain firm with your subjects!
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom books poetry history philosophy literature poets ignorance play quotes impotence creators poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
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