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

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

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

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

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.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.