"Coercive power is the curse of the universe,……" — Mary Parker Follett
"Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul."
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28 Quotes by Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett has 28 quotes on this site.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost…
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Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not…
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control…
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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it…
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Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor…
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The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get…
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We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War…
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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which…
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Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among…
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
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