William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."
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Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind."
Anthony the Great
Monk, Theologian
"To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind."
Jose Saramago
Writer
"I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."
Octavia Butler
Author, Novelist
"Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows."
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"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."
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"We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough."
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"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark"
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
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"We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see."
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"Nature never writes a blind hand."
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"I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was."
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"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister"
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"love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"
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"If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk"
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"But love is blind and lovers cannot see"
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"The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why."
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"I was quiet but I was not blind."
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"Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart"
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"There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism."
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"There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind"
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"They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism."
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"Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth."
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"There's none so blind as those who will not listen."
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"Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well."
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