Eugenics Quotes

• The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Demand, Reason

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Wish, Sterilization

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Land, People, Waste

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• Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ebola, Degenerates, Kind

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  Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

  Margaret Sanger

  Political, Adequate, Problem

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

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• Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.

  James Morcan

  Race, Blue, Law

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• It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cutting, Waiting, Principles

  Buck v. Bell (1927)

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• In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Order, Wiping Out, Population

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• Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Growth, Population, Want

  "The Place of Women on the Court". Interview with Emily Bazelon, www.nytimes.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

  Frederick Osborn

  Names, Goal

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• With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Theory Of Evolution

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, February 24, 1871.

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• If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

  Bertrand Russell

  Black, Population, Survivor

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

  Francis Galton

  Nature, Kindness, Lying

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• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Population, Birth Control

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• The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Educational, Successful

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• The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

  Julian Huxley

  Government, Years, Organization

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• 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

  Ideas, Sound, Natural

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• Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Population, Parenthood, Moron

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.403, Inkling Books

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• A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

  Ted Turner

  Nwo, People, Political

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

  Margaret Sanger

  People, Giving, Choices

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• The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

  Norman Mailer

  Suffering, Levels, Politics

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• Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Law, Population

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.229, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

  Margaret Sanger

  Kind, Discouraged, Should

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.369, Inkling Books

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• Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Mistake, World

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

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• The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Numbers, Community

  John Maynard Keynes (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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