Political Quotes

John Dewey: “Politics is not a branch of morals; it is submerged in morals.”

On the record
Politics is not a branch of morals; it is submerged in morals.
Said by
John Dewey

Editor's note · Context

Dewey argues that politics is deeply intertwined with moral considerations.

Share

More from John Dewey

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

gutenberg.org

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

gutenberg.org

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

gutenberg.org

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

gutenberg.org