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

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

It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.

It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.

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.

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