Blind Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre Download Open image “Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?” — Voltairine de Cleyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blind Enough Inspirational Love
The world will always be cruel, but it never seems that way unless you face it alone — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love. — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should… Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and every other… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in general resemble a cellar junk-shop of chronologies, epaulettes, bad drawings, and silly tales, and are a striking instance of the corrupting influence of State management of education, by which the mediocre, nay the absolutely empty, is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies’ hands,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image