Retard Quotes - Page 2

• You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.

  Bobby Slayton

  Crazy, America, People

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• O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Autumn, Land

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

  Strom Thurmond

  Kings, Race, People

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• I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Dry Up, Comfort, Population

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont (1968). “Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform”

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• Your Olympic Hero is scheduled to wrestle a match against the man they call the big red retard; not that I have anything against retarded people cause I don't. As a matter of fact, I have a lot of retarded fans out there that admire and respect your Olympic Hero, and I wish them well.

  Kurt Angle

  Hero, Men, Wwe

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• Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sacrifice, Self, Development

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• Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Growth, Progress, Gourds

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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• It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Fun, Writing, Dry Up

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• [I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Church, Steps

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• I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

  Tracy Pollan

  Social, Unnoticed

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• It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Growth, Economic

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• The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Speech at National American Convention, 1905

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• We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.

  Doug Stanhope

  Spring, Passion, Men

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• Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Law, Growth

  John William Gibson, William Henry Crogman, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams (1902). “Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust”

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• A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Being Free, Helping

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.236, eKitap Projesi

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• It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Independent, Thinking, Race

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

  John Marshall

  Law, Taxation, Burden

  Gerald Gunther, John Marshall (1969). “John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland”, p.50, Stanford University Press

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• Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

  Cass Gilbert

  Humble, Soul, Genius

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Woods, Way

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

  Dick Morris

  Moving, Growth, Needs

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• Just because I'm from North Harrow some people want me to be a proper chav. I'm not from a poor background, but we have a normal size house, and my mum is a nurse. I had to go to work otherwise I wouldn't be able to have done anything - there wasn't enough money for me to skive off. As for the Vicki Pollard thing - I don't let stuff like that bother me. I mean, she's a bit of a retard, isn't she?

  Kate Nash

  Mean, Nurse, People

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• And then all of a sudden, you're doing jumping jacks, you're happy, because Kane can talk. The Big Red Retard can finally speak.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Funny, Jumping, Wwe

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• It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

  Michael Herr

  Cities, Vegas, Feelings

  Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”

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• ...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

  Jacob Zuma

  Party, Government, Doe

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• Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Science, Important

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.268, Atlantic Books Ltd

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