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> [There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/there-was-no-intellectual-movement-in-american-history-called-social/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

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> [Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-weikart/among-german-historians-there-s-really-not-much-debate-about-whether/)

[Richard Weikart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-weikart/)

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