American history Quote by Jonah Goldberg

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism,…

— Jonah Goldberg

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though…

— N. K. Jemisin

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

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

— Neal Ascherson

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there…

— Douglas Sirk

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is…

— Michael Kinsley

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

— Harun Yahya

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect…

— Kwame Nkrumah

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

— Phillip E. Johnson

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

— George W. Bush