But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America…

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

— Neal Ascherson

“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings…

— Richard Weikart

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never…

— Jonah Goldberg

Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism. If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and a bear…

— Michael Ruppert

“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it as a…

— Immanuel Kant

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

— Peter Singer

Obviously there have been some very poor uses of evolution in the 20th century. Social Darwinism for instance and we point out in the…

— Greg Graffin

“Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the…

— Leonard Darwin

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial…

— Jonathan Sacks

“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably…

— Leonard Darwin

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of…

— Richard Flanagan

“Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such help as…

— Leonard Darwin

Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

— William C. Brown

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners…

— Anita Roddick