There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

— Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett Quotes

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

— Mary Parker Follett

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

— Mary Parker Follett

The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don’t think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won’t be so much trouble.

— Mary Parker Follett

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

— Mary Parker Follett

The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.

— Mary Parker Follett

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

— Mary Parker Follett

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...

— Mary Parker Follett

The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualised.

— Mary Parker Follett

In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.

— Mary Parker Follett

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

— Mary Parker Follett

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

— Mary Parker Follett

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

— Mary Parker Follett

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

— Mary Parker Follett

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.

— Mary Parker Follett

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

— Mary Parker Follett

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

— Mary Parker Follett

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

— Mary Parker Follett

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

— Mary Parker Follett

We may be heartened by our sojourns on Sinai, but no man may live his life in the clouds. And what does pragmatism mean if not just this? We can only, as James told us again and again, understand the collective and distributive by living. Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

— Mary Parker Follett

No experience can ever be repeated, and in this fact we find all the tragedy of life and at the same time its glory – its irrepressible movement.

— Mary Parker Follett
More Mary Parker Follett Quote >>
Privacy Policy   6.50ms  0.71MB