Quotes for All
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 … Read more
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
We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not…You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. Chaim Weizmann
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise. Catherine McAuley
Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul. Cass Gilbert
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Maybe I’m a supernatural retard. C.C. Hunter
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. C. L. R. James
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
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 … Read more