Creativity Requires The Freedom To Consider Unthinkable

It Is One Of The Ironies Of History That Reformers So Often Misjudge The Consequences Of Their Reforms.

More And More Americans Feel Threatened By Runaway Technology, By Large-scale Organization, By Overcrowding. More And More Americans Are Appalled By The Ravages Of Industrial Progress, By The Defacement Of Nature, By Man-made Ugliness. If Our Society Continues At Its Present Rate To Become Less Livable As It Becomes More Affluent, We Promise All To End Up In Sumptuous Misery.

The Idea For Which This Nation Stands Will Not Survive If The Highest Goal Free Man Can Set Themselves Is An Amiable Mediocrity. Excellence Implies Striving For The Highest Standards In Every Phase Of Life.

The [nonprofit] Sector Is The Natural Home Of Nonmajoritarian Impulses, Movements And Values. It Comfortably Harbors Innovators, Maverick Movements, Groups Which Feel They Must Fight For Their Place In The Sun, And Critics Of Both Liberal Conservative Persuasion.

Men Of Integrity, By Their Very Existence, Rekindle The Belief That As A People We Can Live Above The Level Of Moral Squalor. We Need That Belief; A Cynical Community Is A Corrupt Community.