Adolf Hitler Quotes

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

the practical means for cutting off the defective germ-plasm in the American population

Individual wishes are driving the possible emergence of eugenics, not the state, because people want children for whom they can be ambitious.

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.

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

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

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

Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

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.

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.

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

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Whoever is not physically or mentally fit must not pass on his defects to his children. The state must take care that only the fit produce children. Conversely, it must be regarded as reprehensible to withhold healthy children from the state.

Eugenics.

Degenerates, he warned, must not be permitted to reproduce their kind.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

Stupid people shouldn’t breed.

Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.