“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.” KnowsLittlesDesireIndividualSoundProgressHonestReadyKingsEndlessExpertsPriestsRelianceAllegianceEvasion Author:Mary Parker Follett
“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” WayRealSelfSpiritChoicesBeliefSidesHurtTechnologyProgressDangerousDrugShadowMachinesAccountsSafetyMedicineLifestyleExpensiveLazySophisticatedSelf RelianceRelianceSafety NetLifestyle ChoicesShadow Side Author:Andrew Weil
“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.” MenSocialProgressDutyDependsNeighborStabilityRelianceSocial Life Book:Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons Source: Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons
“Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.” FactsRealityCoursesProgressStudentsEasierSymbolsMathematicalFormulasReliance Author:Lord Kelvin
“If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.” IfsSelfCountryStrongLosesPovertyProgressStandardsWeakIndiaUpliftingFarmersAgricultureSelf RelianceRelianceThrustProgrammes Author:Rajiv Gandhi