John Dewey: “If the consequences appear serious, especially if they seem to be…”

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If the consequences appear serious, especially if they seem to be irretrievable, the public brings to bear a weight that will equalize conditions.

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John Dewey

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Dewey notes the role of public opinion in addressing serious consequences of inequalities in society.

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That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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

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

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

John Dewey: “If the consequences appear serious, especially if they seem to be irretrievable, the public brings to bear a weight that…”