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Gerry Spence has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people…
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter…
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government…
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system…
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The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man'…
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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…
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The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless…
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most…
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My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for…
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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.…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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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