Disabled Quotes

How do you deal with that awkward situation of somebody in a wheelchair coming and you want to push them away but you don’t want to create a scene? How do you turn them away? Do you ignore them or wheel them away?

– Sacha Baron Cohen

Bruno, Da Ali G Show. Interview with Miami club owner.

For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.

– Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

I’ve still never had a dream that I’m disabled. Never.

– Christopher Reeve

Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never “mocked” a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him “grovelling” when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!

– Donald Trump

His response to that Meryl Streep Golden Globes speech.

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

– Jim Bridenstine

There are things that I will never laugh at. The handicapped – because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity…At least the little handicapped fella is able minded…or sometimes not – it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.

– Ricky Gervais

As David Brent, in The Office (UK).

The killing of a disabled person is not ‘compassionate’. It is not ‘euthanasia’. It is murder.

– Stella Young