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  • I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  • I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

    Dad   Believe   Book  
    "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.
  • Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  • Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

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

    Nwo   Eugenics   People  
  • I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

    Eugenics   Cds   Trying  
  • On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

    Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.295, Inkling Books
  • Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

    Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge
  • 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 (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc
  • As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

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

  • I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.

    "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.
  • I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.

    Stars   Eugenics  
    "Good time girl" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.
  • If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

    Pain   Men   Eugenics  
    "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
  • My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.

  • Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

    Mean   Eugenics   Giving  
    Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.372, Inkling Books
  • ...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

    David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books
  • 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, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd
  • Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  • Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

    Address to National Press Club in Washington DC. Freedom and Union magazine, April 1952.
  • I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

  • The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  • There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.

    Men   Ideas   Eugenics  
  • 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.

    Buck v. Bell (1927)
  • In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

  • I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  • I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

    Real   Eugenics   Self  
  • We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

  • There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

    Eugenics   Way   Problem  
    Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru on Community Development and Panchayati Raj”
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