Quotes about Genetic Defect

Germany

All genetically defective Germans shall be rendered infertile. (Sterilized)

400,000 Germans were forcibly sterilized for “mental illness”, “slow learning”. “poor posture”, and a number of other characteristics. Soon, sterilization would be replaced by murders and extermination. Ironically, Hitler and other Nazis would quote American advocates of eugenics to further justify their practice of forced sterilization. A number of American states actually sentenced “defective” people to forced sterization.

Harry Laughlin

Prevent the procreation of persons socially inadequate from defective inheritance, by authorizing and providing for eugenical sterilization of certain potential parents carrying degenerate hereditary qualities.

The Eugenics Record Office was an activist organization advocating the forced sterilization of those people who they deemed to be inferior from a hereditary point of view. Most Americans are today shocked to find that this organization and its ideas were so influential that more than 30 states had passed similar laws. Only California and Virginia however were zealous in carrying them out . By 1935, 20,000 forced sterilizations had been carried out in the United States. The Supreme Court at the time even found such laws Constitutional. See {603680}.

Adolf Hitler

The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.

American Breeders’ Association

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

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Bill Ayers

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

Ridley Pearson

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.

Robert A. Heinlein

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Genetic Defect Quotes