John Dewey: “There is no sanctity in universal suffrage, frequent elections, majority rule, congressional and cabinet government.”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

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

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.