Handicapped Quotes
72 quotes by 69 authors
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Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
— Scott Adams
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he…
— Scott Adams
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Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who…
— Edward Kennedy
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Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents…
— James E. Faust
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The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
— J. Edgar Hoover
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A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.
— Irving Langmuir
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The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.
— Jim Breithaupt
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Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are…
— Henry Tizard
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players…
— Thomas M. Disch
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Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
— Nathan McCall
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We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,…
— Danah Zohar
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing…
— Betty Friedan
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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
— William Dunbar
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I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to…
— Auberon Waugh
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I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed…
— Mary Church Terrell
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Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for…
— Kim Peek
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Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and…
— DeForest Soaries
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Women are like parking spots, the best ones are handicapped.
— Zach Braff
Who Wrote These Handicapped Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 72 Handicapped Quotes, led by these top contributors: