Quotes of: Blind-obedience Keyword

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Alexander Berkman

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

Havelock Ellis

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 h...

Lionel Suggs

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

Lionel Suggs

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

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.

Spiritual Guide

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

Klaus Balkenhol

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

God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us

Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obed...

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. "And consider where your true loyalties lie." Once, Chaol might have argued. Once, he might have protested that his loyalty to the crown was his greatest asset. But that blind loyalty and obedience had sta...

Crown of Midnight

Obedience to a woman leads to hell.

Arabian

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

Jakob Bohme

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Jim George

There is no blindness but the blindness of the heart.

Tunisian

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, ...

The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

A blind man who sees is better than a sighted man who is blind.

Iranian

[Judah, Esther, Miriam and Tirzah enter the city to find it deserted except for a blind beggar] Judah Ben-Hur: [to Blind Man] Why are the streets deserted? Blind Man: They have gone to the trial. Alms for the blind? Judah Ben-Hur: Trial? Whose trial?...

Ben-Hur

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.

Perseverance: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.

Russian

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

What Are You Afraid Of?