"We have thought of peace as passive and……" — Mary Parker Follett
"We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree."
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Mary Parker Follett
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28 Quotes by Mary Parker Follett
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It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
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