To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
George H. MeadIn wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
George H. MeadImagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
George H. Mead