Sterilization Quotes:

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Needs, Sterilization, Multiplication

Civilization is sterilization.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

topic: Civilization, Sterilization

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1971). “Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire”, Allen & Unwin

topic: Opinion, Sterilization, Should, Defective

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Woman and the New Race ch. 8 (1920)

topic: Mother, Independent, Doe, International Women's Day, Pro Abortion

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.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

source: Buck v. Bell (1927)

topic: Cutting, Eugenics, Waiting, Sterilization, Three Generations

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

source: Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

topic: Race, Law, Community, Sterilization, Divine Law

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Giving, People, Choices, Sterilization, Planned Parenthood

In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted.

- Steven W. Mosher

topic: Children, Pregnancy, Abortion, Sterilization, Clinic

The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

topic: Two, People, Goal, Sterilization, Excess Baggage

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

topic: Eugenics, People, Wish, Sterilization

Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

- John Cornyn

topic: Morning, Thinking, Government, Morning After, Sterilization

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. [...] 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.

- Nikola Tesla

source: "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

topic: Race, Civilization, Parent, Sterilization, Mating

The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Girl, Class, Emergencies, Sterilization

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.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

topic: Population, Inheritance, May, Sterilization, Planned Parenthood

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.

- Francis Galton

topic: Liberty, Quality, Way, Sterilization, Unwanted

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

topic: Mean, Men, Birth Control, Sterilization

Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.

- Jim Keith

source: Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.17, Adventures Unlimited Press

topic: Country, Eugenics, Media, Mainstream Media, Sterilization

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (1960). “Shaw, Plays by George Bernard”, Signet Classics

topic: Revolutionary, Invention, Century, Sterilization

There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Intelligent, Government, Insane, Sterilization, Planned Parenthood

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.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Lying, Believe, Eugenics, Reproduction, Sterilization

Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Real, White, Air, Real Deep, Sterilization

Richard Spencer is a terrifying individual that wants to burn down the system as we know it, has called for sterilization of races. He has called for a whites-only, or European-only state. And for anyone in a position that Steve Bannon has been in to bring them in and, best-case scenario, use them for their vote is truly terrifying.

- Glenn Beck

source: "Glenn Beck: We're Being 'Conned' By Both Polarizing Parties". Interview with Scott Simon, kbbi.org. November 19, 2016.

topic: Race, Use, Want, Sterilization

The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.

- Michael Sandel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Law, People, Majority, Sterilization, 1930s

I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex perverts.' The last two categories here are very vague . . . The law of Idaho would have justified the sterilization of Socrates, Plato, Julius Caesar, and St. Paul.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.102, Routledge

topic: Sex, Plato, Law, Sterilization, Epileptics

To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Land, Giving, Choices, Sterilization