Best Blind Eyes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.”

Author:Richard Ney

“If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.”

Ifs Eye One Thing Blind This Life I've Learned Gypsy Things I've Learned Fingernails Blind Eyes

Author:Roger Ebert

“Blind eyes cannot read.”

Eye Blind Blind Eyes

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.”

Children Persons Eye Turns Focus Blind Injustice Pet Blind Eyes

Author:Lori Foster

“I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.”

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Author:Tom Morello

“When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.”

God Light Eye Sun Blind Blindness Blind Eyes

Author:St. Jerome

“I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.”

Thinking Way Stills Country Done Problem Eye Beautiful Mistake Seeing Crime Blind Worthy Blind Eyes

Author:Junot Diaz

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a test for humanity and moral dignity. Because turning a blind eye to such horrible and shameful crimes means indulging terrorists and aggressors and violating high European values for which Ukrainians are suffering and dying.”

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Author:Petro Poroshenko

“Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.”

Country Eye Action Turns Support Development Taxes Blind Developing Contradiction Assistance Developing Countries Multinationals Blind Eyes

Author:Trevor Manuel

“I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.”

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Author:Joe Eszterhas

“The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for the sake of a balanced relationship, bound to turn a blind eye to obvious, blatant violations of human rights and the deconstruction of democratic institutions in these countries.”

“We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.”

“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.”

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Book:An Irish Eye

Source: An Irish Eye

“The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.”

Long Eye Turns Materials Blind Photograph Newspapers Blind Eyes

Author:Sienna Miller

“I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!”

Sometimes Eye Blind Blindness Signals Horatio Blind Eyes

Author:Horatio Nelson

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

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Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.”

Should Eye Turns Acting Violence Racism Blind Racist Blind Eyes

Author:Cate Blanchett

“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”

Love Should Self Self Love Blind Narcissism Anorexia Eating Disorder Narcissist Love Is Blind Blind Eyes

Author:Voltaire

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”

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Book:Catspaw

Source: Catspaw

“Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.”

“But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.”

Thinking Way Self Eye Turns Too Much Products Blind Predictable Often Is Morbid This Society Absorption Self Absorption Panacea Blind Eyes

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.”

Facts Eye Turns Blind Customers Hungry Meat Hunts Blind Eyes Peacekeepers

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”

Knows Eye Turns Fool Blind Sand Blind Eyes Ostriches

Book:Murphy

Source: Murphy

“I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.”

Needs Trying Eye Turns Justice Blind Injustice Living My Life Live In The Moment Blind Eyes

Author:Susan Sarandon

“You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.”

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Author:Chidananda Saraswati

“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.”

“Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.”

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Author:Paul Begala

“Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.”

Looks Eye Blind Look At Me Blind Eyes

Author:Lil Wayne

“Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.”

Shows Eye Love Is Regard Blind Worthy Extras Love Is Blind Blind Eyes Blind Love

Author:James M. Barrie

“Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.”

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Author:Elton Gallegly

“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.”

Hands Eye Blind Sacred Fingers Tongue Blind Eyes Sacred Things Feeler

Book:The Bone People: A Novel

Source: The Bone People: A Novel

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Source: Tempest-tost

“In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.”

“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”

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Book:Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.”

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Author:David Lange

“The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye”

People Eye Earth Turns Evil Worst Musician Blind Commit African American Mean People Blind Eyes

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.”

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Author:Alistair Begg

“Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.”

Ifs Knows Want Done Eye Turns Accepting Blind Going Away Why Not Blind Eyes

Book:Dead Aim

Source: Dead Aim

“It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.”

Helping Eye Law Spirit Turns Church Letters Blind Following Customs Tolerate Discretion Blind Eyes

Author:Pope Gregory VII

“What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?”

Source: Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever

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

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Book:The Adages of Erasmus

Source: The Adages of Erasmus

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