John Dewey: “The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.”

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.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.