John Dewey: “Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community.”

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.

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

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

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.