John Dewey: “They ignore forces which have to be composed and resolved before technical and specialized action can come into play.”

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

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.

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