Race Hygiene Quotes

#1. Two presentations, among all, stood out in their particularly chilling fervor. The first was an enthusiastic and precise exhibit by the Germans endorsing "race hygiene" - a grim premonition of times to come. Alfred

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.

A.E. Samaan

#3. Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so many stories which haven't been told from our perspective and there is a huge audience just waiting to watch it.

Sanna Lenken

#4. What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#5. What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you."
"Why? Was kissing me that bad?"
A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

A.E. Samaan

#7. I'll say she's brave," Grandma chimes in. "She's going to England day after tomorrow to hump some guy she barely knows.

Meg Cabot

#8. There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

Pat Conroy

#9. American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.

A.E. Samaan

#10. You're a good man, Cap'n Horn. I know that Miss Willis would be here with you if she could." "She will be here with me. She'll be here if I have to scour all of the confounded British Isles to find her.

Sabrina Jeffries

#11. Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

Vandana Shiva

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

A.E. Samaan

#13. We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

Iain Duncan Smith

#14. Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Augustus William Hare

#15. There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.

Kevin Pietersen

#16. 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

#17. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

#18. A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

Charles Edison

#19. The way you love the man you marry is going to be different than the love you felt for an old boyfriend.

Jillian Dodd

#20. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Ken Scott

#21. Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are ...

Harold Homer Anderson

#22. When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

Avicii

#23. 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

#24. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.

A.E. Samaan