Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.
Mary Parker FollettExperience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Mary Parker FollettGive your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.
Mary Parker FollettLaw should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
Mary Parker FollettIt is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.
Mary Parker Follett