John Dewey: “Individual human beings may lose their identity in a mob or in a political convention or in a joint-stock corporation or…”

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

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

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

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.