No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. The Future of Industrial Man (1942)
The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other. MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.