Darwinism Quote by Peter Singer

“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as class rule…

— Hannah Arendt

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

“Charles Darwin, whose theory changed the whole current of the world's thought, was not a great reader of books, but a careful observer of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

— Talcott Parsons

“equally eagerly from the nineteenth-century polymath Herbert Spencer, the first truly global thinker – who, after reading Darwin, coined the term ‘survival of the…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed a flood…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

— Talcott Parsons

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance…

— Michael Ondaatje

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

— J. V. Cunningham

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought…

— Leo Tolstoy

“ He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He…

— Georg Henrik von Wright

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade