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Quotes from The Future of Industrial Man — Peter Drucker

1909–2005 Austria

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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

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)

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government...

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

There can be no freedom if one man or one group of men... is assumed... inherently perfect or perfectible. Its claim to perfection or perfectibility is a claim to absolute rule.

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions--as in moral truth and accountability they are.

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Drucker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.