John Dewey: “The idea of democracy is a wider and fuller idea than can be exemplified in the state even at its best.”

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.

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.

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

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.