“I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."”

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

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

“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

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

“Without land we are not secure. The reason I am saying land is important, is that when you look at the trees, you feel satisfied. Not because you have eaten, but because it is your land. Without land you are like a bird that is flying from one place to another without a nest. That is why land is important.”

“Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.”

“The cry that we have entered upon our imperial course in order to benefit the native populations in the lands that we have conquered is an old one. … I have before me McKinley's proclamation to the Filipinos, and I have placed it side by side with a proclamation of the King of Assyria, written eighteen hundred years before Christ. A man would think that McKinley had plagiarized the idea from Asshurbanipal.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”