Quotes About Blind Obedience

#1. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Alexander Berkman

#2. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#3. From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Horace

#5. A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Charles Churchill

#6. Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

William Penn

#7. 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

#8. The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Angelina Grimke

#9. 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

#10. Humanity cannot maintain value in their pitiful existence without blind obedience.

Lionel Suggs

#11. The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

Joan D. Chittister

#12. Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Anthony Eden

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response, is either black or white, when you know damned good and well our lives never existed on such a plane.

Lora Leigh

#17. Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Havelock Ellis

#21. Maybe the earth will continue to spin, and the stars won't implode for a bazillion more years, but I know, with a certainty my stupid brain has done its best to ignore, that this moment - right here, with the people I love most - is not going to last.

Melissa Keil

#22. I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!

George MacDonald

#23. Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked."
When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.

George Orwell

#24. Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.

Markus Zusak

#25. Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

Thomas Watson

#26. People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

Paul Mooney

#27. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Andrzej Sapkowski

#28. Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#29. What you verbalize, you internalize.

Evinda Lepins

#30. In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.

Lucia Puenzo

#31. My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him?

Michael Simms

#32. I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?'

Alison Sweeney

#33. In regard to the law of the state - that is, the accumulated power of society as monopolized by the state - there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society.

Hannah Arendt

#34. Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.

Will Durant

#35. In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Horace Mann

#36. Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Carlton D. Pearson

#37. Obedience is another kind of shortcut, in which we trust someone else's thinking above our own. It's easy and simple, especially when we're tired, distracted, and don't want a fight. And so obedience both amplifies and articulates all those other forces that make us blind.

Anonymous

#38. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Banksy

#39. Obedience, to be perfect, must be voluntary; it must be pure and cheerful. But most of all it must be internal. I would add that it must also be blind and persevering.

Michael Molinos