OCTOBER 1910, the Eugenics Record Office opened for…

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

— James Murphy

“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

“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