John Dewey: “The inferiority complex is socially acquired, and the “instinct” of display and mastery is but its other face.”

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

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.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.