Marc Platt

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.

American Producer

David Dobkin

Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.

American Director

Ronald Reagan

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

American President

Morgan Spurlock

I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

Robert Foster Bennett

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

American Politician

Wassily Kandinsky

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

Russian Artist

Carl Sandburg

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

American Poet

Pat Robertson

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

American Clergyman

Tony Robbins

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

American Speaker

Blaise Pascal

French Philosopher

Used to describe sexual dysfunction, often sensitive and personal.

Sexual Context

Sometimes used metaphorically to express lack of power in other areas.

Figurative Use

Highlights a lack of ability to control or influence events.

Lack of Control

While often political, it can describe any situation with no influence.

Not Only Politics

Conveys frustration from not being able to change a situation.

Expressing Frustration

Can be used to show emotional helplessness or defeat.

Emotional Helplessness

Strictly used in a medical context to discuss reproductive issues.

Specific Medical Use

Applicable to both males and females in the medical sense.

Gender Neutral

 Some things they say prevent crusts, red pepper, licorice and coffee. So you can see there are contradictions. Coffee both causes and prevents cancer. As you start to read on, you can see that maybe there's some political valence behind some of this. For women, housework prevents breast cancer, but for men, shopping could make you impotent.

Ben Goldacre: Battling...

 As the weapon flew through the air it cut through clouds, creating deep, rolling peals of thunder. And when the lightning and thunder mixed, precious seeds of water fell from rain. Mekhala drew close to Ream Eyso, now blind and impotent without his axe.

The Cambodian myth of...

 because it hasn't left, and I probably just look like this impotent, powerless thing that couldn't get it to go away. So every day I'd come home and you guys, this feeling got so bad that -- I mean, I'm laughing at it now --

A scientific approach to...

 act like prudes and are so effeminate that one who does not know them would believe they are women. Almost all are impotent for the reproductive act, and thus they marry other males and sleep with them as man and wife

The gender-fluid history...

 The dynamic of the two protagonists has also sparked intense debate. They’ve been read as survivors of the apocalypse, an aging couple, two impotent friends, and even as personifications of Freud’s ego and id.

Why should you read...

 that defied credulity. A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence. At the same time, all of our firepower was impotent

Liz Coleman's call to...

 I was drawn to help people live full lives. But often, I found myself feeling impotent. Here I was, a brand-new doctor with all these skills, but I couldn't cure my patients who had chronic diseases --

A personal health coach...

 men dying on those beaches right now supposed to be the most powerful man in the world and I I'm impotent well I'll tell you why it's the last time anyone's gonna make a decision like that for me

Bay of Pigs PIPE Killing...

 I can't do everything, but I can do something." In a world that conspires to make us believe that we are invisible and that we are impotent, religious communities and religious ritual

It's time to reclaim...

 stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in

Impotent