Breeding Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display…

— H. G. Wells

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

— Margaret Sanger

“I suppose there's no good answer to that, Danny. I wish there was. But if you take the wrong, path, something deep inside you…

— Inara Scott

“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

Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization…

— Jim Keith

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised…

— Charles Darwin

“Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such help as…

— Leonard Darwin

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for…

— Francis Galton

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the…

— Nikola Tesla

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

— Bertrand Russell

“Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some thirty states…

— Bill Bryson

The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for…

— Michael Sandel