Retard Quotes - Page 3

• Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.

  Michael Faraday

  Regret, Science, Men

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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

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• Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, Science, Mind

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• And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

  Franz Kafka

  Goodbye, Long, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

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• Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Brother, Responsibility, Animal

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• Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

  Gary L. Francione

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

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• The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Philosophy, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Business, Men, Play

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• But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Our World, Years, Ideas

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• I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve every learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard – but I do. And part of it is my own fault.

  Megan Fox

  Intelligent, Goes On, Want

  "Megan Fox Talks Bisexuality for Guys, Robert Pattinson for Ladies" by Jennifer Cody, www.eonline.com. May 11, 2009.

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• Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Maturity, Doe

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• Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

  Dave Eggers

  Musical, Gothic, Kind

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• I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

  Rob Corddry

  Names, Comedy, Company

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 4, 2006.

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• Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, May, Revolution

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• After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World Wrestling Federation! Crippling Stone Cold Steve Austin, destroying the unstoppable Mankind; putting him out for three months and beating him for the WWF championship. And then, defending it only a week later and dominating...and, oh yeah, taking to school that little punk, your champion, The Rock!

  Triple H

  Running, Wrestling, School

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• Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

  Jefferson Davis

  Long, People, Justice

  Jefferson Davis (2004). “Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings”, p.202, Modern Library

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• No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

  John Dryden

  Death, Kings, Moments

  John Dryden, “Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book Ii.”

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• I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

  Lewis Black

  Party, People, Want

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2011.

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• If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Looks, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for
  twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say
  a few dollars more.

  Larry David

  Couple, Thinking, Talking

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.

  Christopher Titus

  Men, Racism, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

  Amelia Earhart

  Cutting, Worry, Decision

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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