John Dewey: “The robber band cannot interact flexibly with other groups; it can act only through isolating itself.”

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

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

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

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