... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of…

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

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

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism,…

— Jonah Goldberg

“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

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

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

Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the…

— David Nasaw