John Dewey: “We do not “naturally” or organically need them, but we want them.”

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

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.