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To Say That There Is A Case For Heroes Is Not To Say That There Is A Case For Hero Worship. The Surrender Of Decision, The Unquestioning Submission To Leadership, The Prostration Of The Average Man Before The Great Man -- These Are The Diseases Of Heroism, And They Are Fatal To Human Dignity. History Amply Shows That It Is Possible To Have Heroes Without Turning Them Into Gods. And History Shows, Too, That When A Society, In Flight From Hero Worship, Decides To Do Without Great Men At All, It Gets Into Troubles Of Its Own.

Excellence Is The Eternal Quest. We Achieve It By Living Up To Our Highest Intellectual Standards And Our Finest Moral Intuitions. In Seeking Excellence, Take Life Seriously-but Never Yourself!

Man Generally Is Entangled In Insoluble Problems; History Is Consequently A Tragedy In Which We Are All Involved, Whose Keynote Is Anxiety And Frustration, Not Progress And Fulfilment.

The Basic Human Rights Documents-the American Declaration Of Independence And The French Declaration Of The Rights Of Man-were Written By Political, Not By Religious, Leaders.

What We Need Is A Rebirth Of Satire, Of Dissent, Of Irreverence, Of An Uncompromising Insistence That Phoniness Is Phony And Platitudes Are Platitudinous.