#blind

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ↗

— Karl Marx

#blind #conscious #consciousness #freedom #necessity

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#angels #believed #blinders #cut #everything

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#confirmed #cruel #destructive #forces #grandiose

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#any #blindness #comes #distracted #egg

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ↗

— Anais Nin

#become #blindly #cease #dogma #grow

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#conquering #consists #courage #danger #overlooking

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fate #former #future #his #knows

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. ↗

— Tom Waits

#blind man #bulb #cane #imagination #like