John Dewey: “The increase in the number, variety and cheapness of amusements represents a powerful diversion from political concern.”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

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 idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.