Mary Parker Follett Quotes
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.
administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
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.
The insight to see possible new paths the courage to try them the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.
That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.
Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.
Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Coercive power is the curse of the universe coactive power the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.