John Dewey: “But there is no comparable attention and willingness to expend funds to investigate the causes of these troubles.”

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

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.

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

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