--- title: "11 Eugenic Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 11 Eugenic quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Eugenic sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/margaret-sanger-3929_breeding_eugenic-sterilization-is-an-urgent-need_134700.jpg" --- > [Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/eugenic-sterilization-is-an-urgent-need-we-must-prevent/) [Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/margaret-sanger-3929_breeding_eugenic-sterilization-is-an-urgent-need_134700.jpg) > [Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-osborn/eugenic-goals-are-most-likely-to-be-attained-under-another-name-than/) [Frederick Osborn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-osborn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32b/frederick-osborn-62924_breeding_eugenic-goals-are-most-likely-to-be-atta_3149.png) > [Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-osborn/birth-control-and-abortion-are-turning-out-to-be-the-great-eugenic/) [Frederick Osborn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-osborn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e68/frederick-osborn-62924_abortion_birth-control-and-abortion-are-turning-o_777040.png) > [The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-osborn/the-most-important-eugenic-policy-at-this-time-is-to-see-that-birth/) [Frederick Osborn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-osborn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed1/frederick-osborn-62924_available_the-most-important-eugenic-policy-at-thi_428259.png) > [Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/socialism-also-brings-us-up-against-the-hard-rock-of-eugenic-fact/) [Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f9/havelock-ellis-3921_beautiful_socialism-also-brings-us-up-against-the_2300458.png) > [A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/a-part-of-eugenic-politics-would-finally-land-us-in-an-extensive-use/) [George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/george-bernard-shaw-68_breeding_a-part-of-eugenic-politics-would-finally_2690500.png) > [The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-frankel/the-partisans-of-eugenic-planning-hear-that-other-music-the-music/) [Charles Frankel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-frankel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/charles-frankel-63237_children_the-partisans-of-eugenic-planning-hear-t_1545548.jpg) > [“We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living... A part of eugenic politics would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/we-should-find-ourselves-committed-to-killing-a-great-many-people/) [George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a08/george-bernard-shaw-68_great-man_we-should-find-ourselves-committed-to-ki_1652722.png) > [Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-klassen/living-in-and-promoting-a-eugenic-white-society-this-means-that-we/) [Ben Klassen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-klassen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/ben-klassen-39535_breeding_living-in-and-promoting-a-eugenic-white_2594327.png) > [“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/the-eugenic-optimism-seems-to-partake-generally-of-the-nature-of-that/) [G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/g-k-chesterton-224_confidence_the-eugenic-optimism-seems-to-partake-ge_490582.jpg) > [“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-darwin/my-firm-conviction-is-that-if-wide-spread-eugenic-reforms-are-not/) [Leonard Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/leonard-darwin-86252_darwinism_my-firm-conviction-is-that-if-wide-sprea_975875.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eugenic/#itemlist", "name": "Eugenic Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... 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