Atrocities Quote by Richard Weikart

Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics,…

— Richard Weikart

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in…

— D. James Kennedy

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,

— David Berlinski

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

— Richard Weikart

“the only ideological or political factions that have made any attempt at an ethics consistent with Darwinian science, to this point at least, have…

— David Bentley Hart

“I am speaking, as I know it is rude to do, of the Social Darwinists, the eugenicists, the Imperialists, the Scientific Socialists who showed…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Hitler and Stalin both accepted a late-nineteenth-century Darwinistic modification: progress was possible, but only as a result of violent struggle between races or classes.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to.…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Christianity did not create the Holocaust—indeed, Nazism was anti-Christian—but it made it possible. Without Christian antisemitism, the Holocaust would have been inconceivable.…”

— Michael L. Brown

“the Holocaust suggested to many that reason is the most monstrous of all of man’s faculties.”

— Evan Sayet