John Dewey: “Reproduction of kind is dependent upon the activities of insects which bring about fertilization.”

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.