Margaret Sanger Eugenics Quotes

#1. Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

Nicola Yoon

#2. Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception ... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Margaret Sanger

#3. Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Margaret Sanger

#5. We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

Margaret Sanger

#6. I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,

Richard Dawkins

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

Margaret Sanger

#8. The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

Elie Wiesel

#9. Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. [N]o 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

#11. The contemporary Planned Parenthood movement was started by a woman named Margaret Sanger, who defended abortion rights on the basis of eugenics, the search for "good genes" based on the racist and evolutionary notions of "social Darwinism" prevalent in her day.

Russell D. Moore

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

Margaret Sanger

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

Margaret Sanger

#14. History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#15. Too much virtuality will do that to you sometimes. There's this vague feeling of abrasion in the head when you disconnect, a disquieting sense that reality isn't quite sharp enough anymore, a waxing and waning fuzziness that might be what the edge of madness feels like.

Richard K. Morgan

#16. When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

Jonny Lee Miller

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

Margaret Sanger

#18. Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

Shania Twain

#19. Birth control is nothing more or less than ... weeding out the unfit.

Margaret Sanger

#20. With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.

Eve Myles

#21. Sean, my mate. Mate of my Heart(Jennifer Ashley, Primal Bonds).

Jennifer Ashley

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

Margaret Sanger

#23. 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

#24. As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know ...

Faye Wattleton