John Dewey: “Why should the will of the rulers have more authority than that of others?”

Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.