A speck, an atominconsumable Immortal, hopeless, voiceless, powerless!

When that choice is made, when we, knowing all that hate and evil and malice can accomplish, yet deliberately choose to love our enemies, we have slain the Adversary and made hate and evil powerless.

Slavery proved at Rome a monstrous curse, destroying all manliness of character, creating contempt of honest labor, making men timorous yet cruel, idle, frivolous, weak, dependent, powerless.

She made a sharp effort to rise, and cried out with a sudden pain in her right knee that rendered her for an instant powerless.