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

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Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.

— Mary Parker Follett

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

— Mary Parker Follett

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
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