Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

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.

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

the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

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