The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States. — Yakubu Gowon Copy Share Image
I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
“Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year.… — Annette Crosbie Copy Share Image
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the… — James F. Bell, III Copy Share Image