The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a… — Michael Harney Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based… — Cyrus S. Poonawalla Copy Share Image
“Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance… — Rosemarie Yusen Copy Share Image
Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the same way humans have domesticated sheep and other animals by murdering the strong ones and breeding the docile, obedient ones,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service. — Bill Cooke Copy Share Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hitler’s cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image