Pastoral Resources

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.