Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

— Martin Buber

I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much…

— Tariq Ramadan

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.…

— Ayn Rand

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

— Frank Chodorov

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

— Lionel Jospin

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

— Michael Gruber

Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

— Max Anders

The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress.…

— Gwynne Dyer

Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest,…

— Gretchen Rubin

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

— Michael Crichton

To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under…

— Robert Manne

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure…

— Cofer Black

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

— Stephen Fry

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

— A. A. Milne

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be…

— Harvey Cushing