John Dewey: “Its currency perpetuates the infantile state of social knowledge.”

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.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

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.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.