“465. In the kingdome of blind men the one-ey'd is king.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
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.
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, 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?”
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 180
“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”
Source: Lover Avenged
“An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king”
English in 1819 http://www.readprint.com/work-1361/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), l. 1
Context: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, —
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
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.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 38
“Each gun-captain was a king, every breech a small demanding kingdom.”
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 5 "The Stuff of Battle"