Blind Quote by Angelina Grimke

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to…

— Angelina Grimke

“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or…

— John Stuart Mill

“Blind adherence to an absolute leader, especially one who permits violence, hands followers a license to unleash hidden, prohibited lusts and passions usually kept…

— Chris Hedges

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It…

— Anonymous

“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights…

— Patrick Henry

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice;…

— Charles Hodge

“The authority of God's Word is not an arbitrary, external authority. It is a wooing and conquering authority. Scripture's authority does not demand blind…

— G C Berkouwer

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis…

— George Washington

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

— Edwin Louis Cole