Eugenics Quotes - Page 3

• We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Expression, Should Have, Civilization

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.371, Inkling Books

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• Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Rocks, Facts

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.109, Elsevier

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• As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

  Sam Brownback

  Giving, Progress, Pace

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• Socialism means slavery.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Political, Slavery

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• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Class, Socialism, Capitalism

  Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Socialism, Communism, Turns

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.

  William Cohen

  Real, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  William Cohen's remarks at the news briefing of U.S. Department of Defense, April 28, 1997.

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• No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.

  Margaret Sanger

  Taken, Abortion, Doubt

  "Family Limitation". Book by Margaret Sanger, Revised, Eighth Edition. Chapter: "A Nurse's Advice to Women", www.nyu.edu. 1918.

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• No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Bears, Parenthood

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• Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Answers, Frightened

  "From the Afterword". www.heraldscotland.com. November 20, 2006.

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, America

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Punishment, Ideas, Should Have

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• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  Margaret Sanger

  Finals, Birth Control, Campaigns

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Years, People, Intellectual

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• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Marriage, Two, Vcr

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Poverty, Socialism, Rich

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Socialism values equality more than liberty.

  Dennis Prager

  Equality, Liberty, Socialism

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

  Herbert Read

  Russia, Years, Twenties

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1971). “Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics”

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• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  Earl Warren

  Government, People, Political

  Address to National Press Club in Washington DC. Freedom and Union magazine, April 1952.

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• What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

  Thomas Mann

  Ideas, Long, Intellectual

  "The War and the Future". Speech in 1940. "Order of the Day: Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

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• Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

  Jules Renard

  Heart, Brain, Socialism

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.222, Tin House Books

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• National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fall, Socialism

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• The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Population, Body, Social

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• Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mean, Democracy, Socialism

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 294

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• It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Animal, Race

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