Eugenics Quotes

90 Eugenics quotes by 63 unique authors

Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for… — Unknown Author
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — Chris Hedges
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. — Francis Galton
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who… — Jonah Goldberg
You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics... — Zach Braff
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common… — Francis Galton
The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present… — John Maynard Keynes
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six… — Adolf Hitler
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place… — Thomas Malthus
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty… — Francis Galton
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add,… — John Maynard Keynes
...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike… — Bertrand Russell
There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first… — Hermann Joseph Muller
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way… — Sam Brownback
National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung. — Alfred Rosenberg
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and… — Elias Hicks
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. — Gloria Swanson
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me. — Squarepusher
There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great… — Alan Autry
The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ...… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the… — Adolf Hitler
[N]o one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception.… — Margaret Sanger

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