Mary Parker Follett Quote

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.


The New State (1918)


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...

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...

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...

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...