“465. In the kingdome of blind men the one-ey'd is king.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
August Wilson Gem of the Ocean
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“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
Desiderius Erasmus book Adagia
Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).
Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) American anthropologist
Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (1983) Basic Books, 2000, p. 58.
“Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 180
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Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Avenged
“An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
English in 1819 http://www.readprint.com/work-1361/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), l. 1 <br class="br">Context: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —<br>Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow<br>Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, —<br>Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,<br>But leech-like to their fainting country cling,<br>Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
“The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.”
Alan Hirsch (1959) South African missionary
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 38
“Each gun-captain was a king, every breech a small demanding kingdom.”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 5 "The Stuff of Battle"