Eugenic Quotes

#1. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

A.E. Samaan

#2. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

#3. I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Miles Davis

#4. But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

Daniel Yergin

#5. Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

Margaret Sanger

#6. Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

Frederick Osborn

#7. The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

Frederick Osborn

#8. Social Darwinism had continued to flourish in German. Together with Mendelian genetics, it was widely thought to provide a scientific basis for the eugenic 'Racial Hygiene' movement.

Jonathan Glover

#9. The Eugenic Society ... is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Bertrand Russell

#10. And finally, my head pressed into the pillow, I cried, because my life suddenly seemed so much darker and more complicated than I could ever have imagined, and I wished I could go back ...

Jojo Moyes

#11. You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.

Kristen Hannah

#12. The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

Charles Frankel

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

Frederick Osborn

#14. O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

George Eliot

#15. Winston Churchill was an early proponent of eugenic legislation decades before Hitler came to power.

A.E. Samaan

#16. I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

Kim Basinger

#17. I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.

Robyn Davidson

#18. You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.

Lee Westwood

#19. The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

Rufus Wainwright

#20. Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards.

Karen Maitland

#21. Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

Karl Marx

#22. Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Walter Lippmann

#23. The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Kate Chopin

#24. When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

Susan Orlean

#25. 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

#26. Of all the people around me, you know best that it takes two to complete a story; it always does

Refaat Alareer

#27. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.

Walter Lippmann