"The most serious charge that can be brought……" — Margaret Sanger
"The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression."
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Margaret Sanger
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77 Quotes by Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger has 77 quotes on this site.
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As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next.…
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We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled…
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We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings…
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of…
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More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
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The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,
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I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being…
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Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
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Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
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Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of…
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Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if…
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Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
— Sun Tzu
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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in…
— Sun Tzu
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
— Joseph Hall
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
— Karl Pearson
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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