John Dewey: “Till the Great Society is converted into a Great Community, the Public will remain in eclipse.”

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.