Quotes About Feeble Minded

#1. Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

Clarence Darrow

#2. Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

Joseph J. Ellis

#4. First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

Margaret Sanger

#6. There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they're feeble minded.

Richard Matheson

#7. The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.

Michael Sandel

#8. What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.

Margaret Sanger

#10. The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

Julia Quinn

#12. The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

Margaret Sanger

#13. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

Georgette Heyer

#14. The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.

Ishmael Reed

#15. How can I make him understand that he did not create me?
He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

Daniel Keyes

#16. The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

Truman Capote

#17. Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
Charlie Gordan

Daniel Keyes

#18. God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early ... but he's also never late, either.

Anne Jackson

#19. I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

John Clayton

#20. At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Paul Tournier

#21. Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Alberto Manguel

#22. I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did.

Dan Fogelberg

#23. If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.

Jeff Buckley

#24. Never say always... Never say never.


***Be careful what you wish for***

Piper Stewart

#25. Get your bed ready.
Wear the black bra.
I didn't plan on wearing one.
"God help me," I murmured.

Richelle Mead

#26. There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.

Nicholas Sparks