Eugenics famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.
-- Adolf Hitler -
There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.
-- Alan Autry -
National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.
-- Alison Thompson -
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
-- Arnold Kling -
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.
-- Arthur Caplan -
Marriage is socialism among two people.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis
-- Chris Hedges -
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.
-- David Berlinski -
It was these same families [Rothschild, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, etc] who funded the eugenics movement which is pledged to remove the lower genetic blood streams and leave only those of superior stock. Eugenics today often goes under the title of 'population control'. The best known of the population control organizations is Planned Parenthood which began life under another name at the London offices of the British Eugenics Society.
-- David Icke -
...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.
-- David Icke -
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
-- Dennis Prager -
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
-- Earl Warren -
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
-- Elias Hicks -
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
-- Fidel Castro -
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.
-- Francis Galton -
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.
-- Francis Galton -
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.
-- Francis Galton -
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.
-- Francis Galton -
Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.
-- Frederick Osborn -
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
-- Gloria Swanson -
[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.
-- Henry Makow -
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
-- Herbert Read -
There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.
-- Hermann Joseph Muller -
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
-- Hugo Chavez -
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
-- James Galway -
Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.
-- James Morcan -
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
-- James Otis -
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.
-- Jim Keith -
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health (NAMH), formed in 1944, and initially run by the mentally unstable Montagu Norman, previously of the Bank of England. The group originally met at Norman's London home, where he and Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht had met in the 1930s to arrange financing for Hitler.
-- Jim Keith -
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James Loeb, of the Kuhn-Loeb banking family. Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, were banking partners of William Rockefeller, and both families were responsible for setting up the American Harriman family - also movers and shakers in eugenics - in business.
-- Jim Keith -
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.
-- Jim Keith -
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
-- John Burns -
The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
-- Jules Renard -
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
[N]o one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.
-- Margaret Sanger -
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.
-- Margaret Sanger -
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.
-- Margaret Sanger -
The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today.
-- Michael Tsarion -
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
-- Morarji Desai -
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
-- Norman Mailer -
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
-- Oswald Spengler -
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
-- Rick Derringer -
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -
The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
-- Sam Brownback -
I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.
-- Squarepusher -
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.
-- Theodosius Dobzhansky -
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.
-- Thomas Malthus -
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.
-- Thomas Malthus -
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
-- Thomas Mann -
Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
-- Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay -
Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.
-- Ian O'Doherty
