John Dewey: “In these facts we have the ground of the common antithesis set up between society and the individual.”

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

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.