John Dewey: “Appeal to a gregarious instinct to account for social arrangements is the outstanding example of the lazy fallacy.”

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

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

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…

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