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• I admit that I am powerless over fish innards.
• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. -- Blaise Pascal
• The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
  -- Leon Trotsky, "Terrorism and Communism", 1924...
• When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have any recourse to any other.
  -- Michael Uhlma...
• Taxation is theft; Conscription is slavery; War is murder.
• Power thanks; nothing more clearly separates the powerful from the powerless than that graciousness.
• The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
• Wandering between two worlds,--one dead, The other powerless to be born.
  -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse...
• Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
  -- Paulo Freire...