John Dewey: “The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.”

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

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

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.

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