“It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.” PoliticsGroupsSocietySocialismSocial Dynamics Book:Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good Source: Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good
“The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The experience of all associations proves, however, that this is not the case, and that a lively, constant and vigorous awareness of the end is found only in a minority of the associates; an association is really rather like a comet—a large tail of docile followers dragged along by a small dynamic head.” LeadershipDemocracyGroupsSociologySocial DynamicsGroup Action Book:Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good Source: Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good