Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
ATTRIBUTION:
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (b. 1898), Chinese educator, reformer. China Shall Rise Again, pt. 1, ch. 8 (1941).