Eugenics Quotes

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ebola, Degenerates, Kind

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• 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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• 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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• The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James Loeb, of the Kuhn-Loeb banking family. Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, were banking partners of William Rockefeller, and both families were responsible for setting up the American Harriman family - also movers and shakers in eugenics - in business.

  Jim Keith

  Banking, Study, Responsible

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.14, Adventures Unlimited Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Population, Birth Control

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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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• 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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• The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

  George Reisman

  Philosophy, Loss, Political

  George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub

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

  Frederick Osborn

  Names, Goal

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

  Norman Mailer

  Suffering, Levels, Politics

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• One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Horse, Humanity, Body

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• Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, People, Indifferent

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• Socialism means slavery.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Political, Slavery

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• You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics.

  Zach Braff

  Secret, Want, Let Me

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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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• 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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