Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past – never on yourselves.’ His fists balled spasmodically. ‘It amounts to a diseased attitude – a conditional reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority. There seems no doubt ever in your minds that the Emperor is more powerful than you are, or Hari Seldon wiser. And that’s wrong, don’t you see?’
The true definition of stagnation - loss of personal responsibility.
