The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist… — Jonah Goldberg 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
“The greatest moral appeal of the doctrine of the Blank Slate comes from a simple mathematical fact: zero equals zero. This allows… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed… — Richard Flanagan 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
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
“Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Obviously there have been some very poor uses of evolution in the 20th century. Social Darwinism for instance and we point out… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.” — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism. If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust.… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
