John Dewey: “They affect thinking and desire more than did the interests which formerly moved the state.”

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

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

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

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