Brilliant lead!
“And if, one way or another, the religious order ends up in such a state that at its Chapters, meetings and other events the most serious members do not dare to say what Charity and Justice require - be it through weakness, small-mindedness or fear of angering the superior and thereby remaining without office (which is a manifest ambition) - then the order is to be considered lost and totally dissolved.” (St. John of the Cross, Minor Works, Counsel 12)