Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

French Philosopher

Robert Kennedy

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

American Politician

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

German Poet

Jillian Michaels

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

American Athlete

Ted Lieu

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

Mason Cooley

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

American Writer

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

American Psychologist

H. D. Kumaraswamy

I'm an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness.

Indian Politician

Euripides

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Greek Poet

Deepak Chopra

American Speaker

Emphasizes a deep emotional state when one's ability to act is restricted by external forces or limitations.

Emotional Significance

Suggests situations where circumstances are beyond one's personal control, making one unable to influence the outcome.

No Control

Indicates a strong dependency on others for support, care, or assistance, often due to age or ability.

Need for Support

Implies that a person lacks the skills or knowledge required for a task or situation.

Lack of Skills

Highlights a person's susceptibility to harm or danger, often in a physical or psychological sense.

Vulnerability

Used to describe situations that are dire, where a person cannot fend for themselves, evoking sympathy or concern.

Desperate Circumstances

Sometimes describes an uncontrollable response, often in humor or disbelief.

Involuntary Reactions

 that suggests there might be two kinds of laughs that we have. So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite social laughter that you encounter, which isn't horrible laughter,

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 that larvae may not be as helpless as they seem, and are capable of taking their fate in their own fins to maximize their chances of survival. The larvae of many species are unexpectedly strong swimmers, and can move vertically in the water column to place themselves in different water masses and preferentially ride certain currents.

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 could endure there's no more helpless of a feeling than watching your child die and yet in many of these communities not only do mothers lose their children they are blamed for these deaths I now know that a mother no matter how poor no

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 it's hard to believe a helpless newborn cub outranks even the oldest male in the clan with a ranking system like this finding a mate can't be easy for the males to try and understand more about the relationship between males and females

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 but why does it come down to the ground to do it? And why does it nearly always choose to do so in exactly the same place? Whatever the reason, it must be very important, for a sloth on the ground is almost helpless.

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 resistance and break through into the Royal bunker the Corral Queen and her broods are trapped and completely helpless held by each leg the queen is on the rack

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 The keepers move the baby closer. The youngster cries out desperately for mum to pick her up but she still ignores the helpless baby.

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 and her broods are trapped and completely helpless held by each leg the queen is on the rack

Helpless