the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principle...
Capitán Vidal: You could have obeyed me! Doctor: But captain, to obey - just like that - for obedience's sake... without questioning... That's something only people like you do.
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be auto...
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
It's a blindness thing, faith.
Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
Love is blind but boundless in vision.
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.
Who can blind lover's eyes?
In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king
To imagine is to risk being mentally blind.
Liebe macht nicht blind. Der Liebende sieht nur weit mehr als da ist.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.
Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!
