John Dewey: “One of the chief occupations of states has been the waging of war and the suppression of dissentient minorities.”

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

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.