John Dewey: “The lasting, extensive and serious consequences of associated activity bring into existence a public.”

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

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

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

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