Unborn babies targeted in crackdown on criminality: Blair launches policy imported from the US to intervene during pregnancy to head off anti-social behaviour. Guardian online article Lucy Ward 16th May 2007
A total world population of between 250 – 300 million people: a 95% reduction of present levels would be ideal. Ted Turner, interview Audubon magazine
I am surprised that no-one has as yet thought of creating a pro-Earth humanity-challenging organisation which would put itself in the shoes of our Mother Earth and rejoice whenever humans diminish in numbers or consume less. It would give yearly prizes to people, events or institutions which achieve a reduction of the human population or of the consumption of Earth resources. Robert Muller, Ideas & Dreams for a Better World
Eugenics gave rise to abuses throughout the world. Its home in the United States was the Coldspring Harbor Laboratory in New York, where they registered the physical traits of three-quarters of a million people. It’s a legacy that Watson [of Watson & Crick] would later inherit. Horizon: The President’s Guide to Science, BBC 2008
Even though ... any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is handled with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable. Julian Huxley, first head of UNESCO
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among Eugenicists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no-one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. Nikola Tesla
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s. G K Chesterton
Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. G K Chesterton
Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues. James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization. The size and the importance of the United States throws on you a special responsibility in your endeavours to safeguard the future of our race. Those who are attending your Congress will be aiding in this endeavour, and though you will gain no thanks from your own generation, posterity will, I believe, learn to realize the great debt it owes to all the workers in this field. Leonard Darwin
Galton’s eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics. John Maynard Keynes, Eugenics Review 1946
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 fore-shadowings we the present ailing creatures are. Herrman J Muller, 1935
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it. Jacques Cousteau
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind ... Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum ... Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty of the good citizens of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type. The great problem of civilization is to secure a relative increase of the valuable as compared with the less valuable or noxious elements in the population ... The problem cannot be met unless we give full consideration to the immense influence of heredity. Theodore Roosevelt to Charles B Davenport, 3rd January 1913
I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them ... The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed. Theodore Roosevelt
Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. Margaret Sanger, The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda, Birth Control Review October 1921
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. ibid.
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review
It’s an experiment. It was a success. Utopia s1e5, Lets, Channel 4 2013
The purpose of Janus is to sterilize the entire human race. ibid.
If they do this, it’s social and economic Armageddon. ibid. pusher
We’re saving a species. Utopia s2e1
We have to kill all of them. ibid. red-headed bird
Today, I offer the Commonwealth’s sincere apology for Virginia’s participation in eugenics. We must remember the Commonwealth’s past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring. Mark Warner, cited BBC News 3rd May 2002
Bioethics is very much founded on and springs from Eugenics. The Corbett Report: Still Listening to the Enemy, James Corbett online April 2012
John D Rockefeller III: He was a mission to do something about the problem of over-population. Rockefeller approached that mission as a representative of the Population Council … The Eugenics Society under another name. The Corbett Report: Why Big Oil Conquered the World, 2017
Henry Herbert Goddard: The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness. ibid.
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race. Madison Grant, director American Eugenics Society, 1915
Eugenics is the controversial idea that we can improve the quality of the human race by selecting who can and who can’t reproduce. For more than a century Eugenics led innocent people: the disabled, the poor, the non-white, to be segregated, even sterilised, in the name of Science. It was a formative influence on Adolf Hitler and a driving force for the Nazi death camps. Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal I, BBC 2019
Eugenics was in fact invented and promoted within the British establishment. ibid.
Eugenicists ruined people’s lives. ibid.
‘[Francis] Galton thinks if we can do that to dogs and pigeons and horses, what can we do to ourselves?’ ibid. Professor Radick
Galton set up a laboratory to measure the physical differences between thousands of people. ibid.
Winston Churchill who became Home Secretary in 1910 was an influential advocate of eugenics. ibid.
So-called feeble-minded families were removed from the national gene pool. ibid.
There’s another side to the [Marie] Stopes [contraceptive] scandal. ibid.
Eugenics would achieve part of the Nazi vision. ibid.
The murderous consequences of 20th century race science. ibid.