Mary Parker Follett Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Essence, Organization, Creating

• Democracy is self-creating coherence.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Creating, Self, Intelligence

• A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Majority Rule, Democracy, Minorities

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.143, Penn State Press

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

  Mary Parker Follett

  Goal, Democracy, Process

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.99, Penn State Press

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

  Mary Parker Follett

  Heart, Democracy, Groups

• 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

  Women, Majority Rule, Numbers

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.7, Penn State Press

• 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

  Women, Opportunity, Democracies Have

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