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Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. ~ Terry Tempest Williams
Blind Obedience quotes by Terry Tempest Williams
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Blind Obedience quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. ~ Howard Zinn
Blind Obedience quotes by Howard Zinn
Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success. ~ Carl Sagan
Blind Obedience quotes by Carl Sagan
Thus, that happiness the two sexes cannot find with the other they will find, one in blind obedience, the other in the most energetic expression of his domination. ~ Marquis De Sade
Blind Obedience quotes by Marquis De Sade
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ~ Alexander Berkman
Blind Obedience quotes by Alexander Berkman
In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of one's imagination, a poetic truth, an ethical, not a social, construct... blind obedience was the true value... the stronger a person is... the more he obeys. ~ Modris Eksteins, The Rites Of Spring
Blind Obedience quotes by Modris Eksteins, The Rites Of Spring
Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war. ~ Nancy Gibbs
Blind Obedience quotes by Nancy Gibbs
The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests arising from it; they are indeed at the service of economic power and the international trusts. The socialist empires for their part are hard and intransigent, they do not allow pluralism, they impose dialectical materialism, demand blind obedience to the party, set up a regime of total and permanent insecurity and fear, just like the fascist dictatorships of the extreme right. ~ Helder Camara
Blind Obedience quotes by Helder Camara
In a democracy, we should be reluctant to take any action that amounts to an attempt to coerce the majority, for such attempts imply the rejection of majority rule, to which there is no acceptable alternative. There may, of course, be cases where the majority decision is so appalling that coercion is justified, whatever the risk. The obligation to obey a genuine majority decision is not absolute. We show our respect for the principle, not by blind obedience to the majority, but by regarding ourselves as justified in disobeying only in extreme circumstances. ~ Peter Singer
Blind Obedience quotes by Peter Singer
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality. ~ Joan D. Chittister
Blind Obedience quotes by Joan D. Chittister
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. ~ William Penn
Blind Obedience quotes by William Penn
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ~ Alexander Berkman
Blind Obedience quotes by Alexander Berkman
But she could not move of her own free will - an order from them would immediately have made her get up, but this time what they wanted from her was not blind obedience, acquiescence to an order, they wanted her to anticipate orders, to judge herself a slave and surrender herself as such. This, then, is what they called her consent. ~ Pauline Reage
Blind Obedience quotes by Pauline Reage
So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Blind Obedience quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. ~ Anthony Eden
Blind Obedience quotes by Anthony Eden
He could now see his life opening before him, uncomplex and inescapable as a barren corridor, completely freed now of ever again having to think or decide, the burden which he now assumed and carried as bright and weightless and martial as his insignatory brass: a sublime and implicit faith in physical courage and blind obedience, and a belief that the white race is superior to any and all other races and that the American is superior to all other white races and that the American uniform is superior to all men, and that all that would ever be required of him in payment for this belief, this privilege, would be his own life. ~ William Faulkner
Blind Obedience quotes by William Faulkner
I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience. ~ John Taylor Gatto
Blind Obedience quotes by John Taylor Gatto
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Blind Obedience quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
Blind obedience is not the same as loyalty. ~ Reki Kawahara
Blind Obedience quotes by Reki Kawahara
No master can make me swear blind obedience. ~ Horace
Blind Obedience quotes by Horace
Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion. ~ Kirsten Beyer
Blind Obedience quotes by Kirsten Beyer
Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace, I cannot comprehend his meaning, unless, in the true Mahometan strain, he meant to deprive us of souls, and insinuate that we were beings only designed by sweet attractive grace, and docile blind obedience, to gratify the senses of man when he can no longer soar on the wing of contemplation. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Blind Obedience quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
I stared at him and, for the first time, I felt like I was really seeing him. He didn't love me. He used the word love like a weapon, as a means of control, as a way to ensure my blind obedience. He made it ugly. He ~ Penny Reid
Blind Obedience quotes by Penny Reid
At times like this, I am grateful I somehow learned to value self-discovery over blind obedience to authority. The Buddha himself said we shouldn't believe his words without question - we must discover the truth for ourselves. "Be a lamp unto yourself," he counseled his disciples. "Find your own way to liberation. ~ Gay Hendricks
Blind Obedience quotes by Gay Hendricks
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged. ~ Charles Kimball
Blind Obedience quotes by Charles Kimball
Do not question God. Do not question America. Mix those two ideas together, and you've got a lovely recipe for blind obedience. I ~ P.Z. Myers
Blind Obedience quotes by P.Z. Myers
I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. You chose to walk into the light, not realizing that you were already chained within the darkness. When a hand was offered to you, you looked up into the sky, and bowed your head in blind obedience, when you should have been creating a new possibility. Nothing is more pathetic than to see ignorance in action. Nothing is more laughable than to see the obedient ask an illusion for more power to stay frivolously obedient. I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. I only have sympathy for the Devil ... ~ Lionel Suggs
Blind Obedience quotes by Lionel Suggs
To Bruce Lee, philosophy was not the professional playground of academics, but every human being's gateway to the greatest adventure of the human spirit. It illuminated the frontiers of human possibility and obliterated the shadows of doubt and insecurity. Unlike others, content to follow, Bruce Lee insisted upon charting his own course toward truth, and he encouraged those who wished to share his insights to do likewise. While Lee was a champion of individual rights and individual development, both of which stress the sovereignty of the individual as an end in himself, he also spoke to something deeper - the commonality of all human beings and the removal of such artificial barriers to true brotherhood as nationality, ethnicity, and class structure, so that human beings could live together peaceably as independent equals. Bruce Lee rejected blind obedience to ~ Bruce Lee
Blind Obedience quotes by Bruce Lee
I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness ~ Thomas S. Monson
Blind Obedience quotes by Thomas S. Monson
Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not ~ Slavoj Zizek
Blind Obedience quotes by Slavoj Zizek
I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by. ~ William Butler Yeats
Blind Obedience quotes by William Butler Yeats
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. ~ Les Dawson
Blind Obedience quotes by Les Dawson
I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind. ~ Josef Koudelka
Blind Obedience quotes by Josef Koudelka
The blind can see God, the deaf can hear Him, the mute can speak to Him, and the lame can run to Him. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Blind Obedience quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Thank you." Lib tried to think of some more conversational note to end on. "It's always intrigued me," she said, letting her voice rise, "why you Sisters of Mercy are called walking nuns." "We walk out into the world, you see, Mrs. Wright. We take the usual vows of any order - poverty, chastity, obedience - but also a fourth, service." Lib had never heard the nun say so much before. "What kind of service?" Anna broke in: "To the sick, the poor, and the ignorant." "Well remembered, child," said the nun. "We vow to be of use." As ~ Emma Donoghue
Blind Obedience quotes by Emma Donoghue
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Blind Obedience quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No. ~ Judith Martin
Blind Obedience quotes by Judith Martin
Now here is Gardiner, patting a manuscript as if it were the cheek of a plump baby: 'The king will be pleased to read this. I have called it, Of True Obedience.' 'You had better let me see it before it goes to the printer.' 'The king himself will expound it to you. It shows why oaths to the papacy are of none effect, yet our oath to the king, as head of the church, is good. It emphasises most strongly that a king's authority is divine, and descends to him directly from God.' 'And not from a pope. ~ Hilary Mantel
Blind Obedience quotes by Hilary Mantel
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Blind Obedience quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter ... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes. ~ Baron D'Holbach
Blind Obedience quotes by Baron D'Holbach
Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight. ~ Thomas Watson
Blind Obedience quotes by Thomas Watson
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability. ~ Stephan Pastis
Blind Obedience quotes by Stephan Pastis
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Blind Obedience quotes by Henry David Thoreau
When you're older you will know that at some unconscious level not only did you see it coming, but you created it, in your own blind, stumbling way. You will console yourself with the fact that it wouldn't have mattered, seeing it or not seeing it. You were a sponge for incident. ~ Stephanie Danler
Blind Obedience quotes by Stephanie Danler
We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. ~ John Piper
Blind Obedience quotes by John Piper
The insistence on the knowledge of intellectual mysteries, either as an indispensable addition to or as a substitute for simple obedience to the claims of the Christian life, has always been a weakness of the Church. ~ R.H. Charles
Blind Obedience quotes by R.H. Charles
We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn ~ Kay Hooper
Blind Obedience quotes by Kay Hooper
Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an apalling and hopeless ennui. She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by "life's delirium." It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression. ~ Kate Chopin
Blind Obedience quotes by Kate Chopin
To the world -
lover is a fool.

To the lover -
world is deaf and blind.

Only if you could -
take a sip of his yearning.

Your soul would -
rise, hang -
and burn like crazy. ~ Rafy Rohaan
Blind Obedience quotes by Rafy Rohaan
How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact! ~ Mark Twain
Blind Obedience quotes by Mark Twain
these fond parents were not blind to the value of education it was that they realized only its external value. That is to say, they could not look beyond the fact that education enabled folk to get on in the world so far as the acquisition of rank, crosses, and money was concerned.
Certain evil rumours had arisen regarding the necessity of learning not only one's letters, but also various branches of science which until now had remained unknown to the world of Oblomovka; but, as I say, the good folk of that place had only the dimmest, the remotest, comprehension of any internal demand for education, and therefore desired to secure for their little Ilya only certain showy advantages, and no more--to wit, a fine uniform, and the getting of him into the Civil Service (his mother even foresaw him become a provincial governor!). ~ Ivan Goncharov
Blind Obedience quotes by Ivan Goncharov
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. ~ Cate Blanchett
Blind Obedience quotes by Cate Blanchett
Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Blind Obedience quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of obedience is nice, but to do something from freedom is beautiful." ~ Jill Thrussell ~ Jill Thrussell
Blind Obedience quotes by Jill Thrussell
Ultimately, eventually, we let go. We do this not because we're ready. We do this not because we've mended. We do this not because we've mourned and come to terms and gotten over it and moved on. We never move on. We don't let go so much as lose our grip and fall because remembering is not enough..memory is imperfect. It is full of holes. It is more space than matter, like lace. It is at once sodden with sorrow and desiccated from lack of blood flow, the obvious result of a broken heart. It makes things up in hopeless attempts to comfort itself. It fills fissure with fantasy. It screws shut its eyes and balls up its fists and flings itself to the ground in a kicking, screaming, blind-rage temper tantrum against reality. But mostly,..memory keeps taking on more. ~ Laurie Frankel
Blind Obedience quotes by Laurie Frankel
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile. ~ Khaled Hosseini
Blind Obedience quotes by Khaled Hosseini
The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people. ~ Elizabeth Warren
Blind Obedience quotes by Elizabeth Warren
Oh, what a grand design! to make our joy the echo of your excellence. To make our pleasure proof that you now hold the place of Treasure in our lives. To make the gladness of our soul the essence of our worship, and the mirror of your worth. To make yourself most glorified in us, oh God, when we are satisfied in you. How could I, Lord, have ever been to so blind to think think that being loved by you means making much of me and not yourself? ~ John Piper
Blind Obedience quotes by John Piper
If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others ~ Sunday Adelaja
Blind Obedience quotes by Sunday Adelaja
The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America. ~ Michael Jackson
Blind Obedience quotes by Michael Jackson
ego creates blind spots. ~ Eric Schmidt
Blind Obedience quotes by Eric Schmidt
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on. ~ Rush Limbaugh
Blind Obedience quotes by Rush Limbaugh
Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth. ~ Edward Abbey
Blind Obedience quotes by Edward Abbey
Groupies and hangers-on somehow fancy themselves entitled to the narcissist's favour and largesse, his time, attention, and other resources. They convince themselves that they are exempt from the narcissist's rage and wrath and immune to his vagaries andabuse
. This self-imputed and self-conferred status irritates the narcissist no end as it challenges and encroaches on his standing as the only source of preferential treatment and the sole decision-maker when it comes to the allocation of his precious and cosmically significant wherewithal.
The narcissist is the guru at the centre of a cult. Like other gurus, he demands complete obedience from his flock: his spouse, his offspring, other family
members, friends, and colleagues. He feels entitled to adulation and special treatment by his followers. He punishes the wayward and the straying lambs. He enforces discipline, adherence to his teachings, and common goals. The less accomplished he is in reality – the more stringent his mastery and the more pervasive the brainwashing.
Cult leaders are narcissists who failed in their mission to "be someone", to become famous, and to impress the world with their uniqueness, talents, traits, and skills. Such disgruntled narcissists withdraw into a "zone of comfort" (known as the "Pathological Narcissistic Space") that assumes the hallmarks of a cult.
The – often involuntary – members of the narcissist's mini-cult inhabit a twilight zone of his own construction. He ~ Sam Vaknin
Blind Obedience quotes by Sam Vaknin
[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. ~ Alain De Botton
Blind Obedience quotes by Alain De Botton
Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard. ~ John Jackson Miller
Blind Obedience quotes by John Jackson Miller
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Blind Obedience quotes by Michel De Montaigne
Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom. ~ Billy Graham
Blind Obedience quotes by Billy Graham
Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience. ~ Rick Warren
Blind Obedience quotes by Rick Warren
You have compassion but by itself it is not enough. It is almost as if you carry around inside you some dead thing. Some heavy black cinder in your heart that burdens you; a ponderous anchor that tethers you to the past. Until you can burn it away, you can never truly live in the present, in the now. Until you can live in the now, you cannot see things as they really are. Meantime you are a man who is wilfully blind. You have eyes and yet you will not use them. ~ John Dolan
Blind Obedience quotes by John Dolan
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend. ~ Edward Gibbon
Blind Obedience quotes by Edward Gibbon
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obedience if they see reflected in them the authority of Christ, God and Man. Peace and harmony, too, will result; for with the spread and the universal extension of the kingdom of Christ, men will become more and more conscious of the link that binds them together, and thus many conflicts will either be prevented entirely or at least their bitterness be diminished. ~ Pope Pius XI
Blind Obedience quotes by Pope Pius XI
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