Mary Parker Follett Quotes

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Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Mary Parker Follett
We have thought of peace as a letting go and war as a girding up. We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

Mary Parker Follett
That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Mary Parker Follett
The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

Mary Parker Follett
In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

Mary Parker Follett
The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.

Mary Parker Follett
We can never catch up with life... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

Mary Parker Follett
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

Mary Parker Follett
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

Mary Parker Follett