John Dewey: “We are born organic beings associated with others, but we are not born members of a community.”

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.