Blind Obedience Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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No master can make me swear blind obedience.
— Horace
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis…
— Alexander Berkman
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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…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life…
— Gerry Spence
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Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
— William Penn
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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…
— Charles Kimball
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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…
— Charles Churchill
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Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
— Anthony Eden
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
— Havelock Ellis
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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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,…
— Howard Zinn
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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…
— Klaus Balkenhol
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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…
— Angelina Grimke
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When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.
— Jim Fiebig
Who Wrote These Blind Obedience Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Blind Obedience Quotes as follows: