John Dewey: “All of them, like all things human, are mixed in quality; “society” is something to be approached and judged critically…”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

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

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.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.