[I]n the United States the Divine Conscience has long since been replaced by the Public Conscience, a force that increasingly haunts and dominates our lives.

the boorstin reader, p. 777

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The perils for American culture come less from the application of varied standards than from the pretense that the standards are not being varied, or that there really are not standards anyway. The greatest peril is in the condescension and indignity to disadvantaged groups who are given the message that less should be expected of them, and that they need expect less of themselves.

the boorstin reader, p. 782

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The leader must imagine that things can be otherwise. The spirit of the leader I call the amateur spirit. We think of an amateur as an unprofessional, a term of stigma, someone who doesn’t do the work properly—but the word originates from the Latin work meaning to love. The leaders is inspired by the amateur spirit, and he or she does the job for the love of it.

the deseret news june 1996

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The amateur has the unprofessional faith that things can be otherwise, that knowledge is not for the profit and prosperity of the knowers, but for the community and posterity. He or she must have the bureaucratic courage to do things for the first time.

the deseret news june 1996

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