Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.