We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

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

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.

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 should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.