The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

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.

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

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