If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on… — Alison Thompson Copy Share Image
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
“It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men's marriages. It is cold anarchy to say… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. — James Galway Copy Share Image
Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through… — William Cohen Copy Share Image
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image