John Dewey: “Because they enter life and modify experience in imperceptible ways, and their consequences are not realized, speech…”

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

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

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

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