"Democracy is self-creating coherence." — Mary Parker Follett
"Democracy is self-creating coherence."
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Mary Parker Follett
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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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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance…
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
— Octavio Paz
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...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace,…
— Robert Adams
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From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual…
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's…
— Henry Wessel, Jr.
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We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and…
— Pope Francis
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The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms,…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian…
— John Stott
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In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an…
— John O'Donohue
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