Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

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

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.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

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.