Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?"
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Eugenics
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Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"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."
William Cohen
Politician
"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves"
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author
"One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death."
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"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important."
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"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself."
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"Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems."
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"If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full."
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"Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind"
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"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution"
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"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding"
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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."
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"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys."
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"There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority."
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"The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body."
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"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."
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"A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."
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"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."
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"I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will."
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"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."
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"We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth."
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"Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment."
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