John Dewey: “It then operates as a condensed available check on the naturally overweening influence of immediate desire and interest…”

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

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.

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