John Dewey: “Then there exists something truly social and not merely associative.”

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

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

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.