Eugenics Quotes
90 quotes by 63 authors
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there…
— Bashar al-Assad
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or…
— Diane Ackerman
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Socialism means slavery.
— Lord Acton
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
— John Calvin
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
— Fidel Castro
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism…
— Hugo Chavez
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may…
— Thomas Malthus
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,…
— Thomas Malthus
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the…
— Thomas Malthus
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a…
— H.G. Wells
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We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with…
— Margaret Sanger
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We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been…
— Margaret Sanger
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor…
— Margaret Sanger
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery,…
— David Berlinski
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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
— Margaret Sanger
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