By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was…

“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early…

— Joseph Loconte

“In the early twentieth century, progressives, including a number of Unitarians, were very enthusiastic about eugenics. Kenneth MacArthur of the Federated Church in Sterling,…

— Mark W. Harris

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power…

— Anonymous

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the…

— Charles Darwin

“IV. Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real techie in the cafeteria of a software company. The project…

— Ellen Ullman

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less…

— Nikola Tesla

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would…

— John Maynard Keynes

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…

— Alison Thompson

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'…

— Margaret Sanger

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,…

— James Morcan

The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long…

— F. William Engdahl

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

— James Lovelock

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

— Frederick Osborn

The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental…

— Jim Keith