Equality Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably…

— Leonard Darwin

“The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect applied psychology,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and…

— Thomas Paine

“In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.”

— Christina Stead

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

“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.'…

— Abraham Lincoln

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their…

— Francis Galton

“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.”

— Matthew Desmond

“Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, first coined the term “eugenics” in his 1883 book Human Faculty and Its Development.”

— Elizabeth Letts

“Utopias of equality are biologically doomed[.]”

— Will Durant

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give…

— Sam Brownback