John Dewey: “The public pays generously to take care of the results of bad conditions.”

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.