{"quotes":[{"text":"More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada. So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["adolf-hitler","charles-darwin","eugenecist","eugenics","francis-galton","government-regulation","harry-h-laughlin","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-revisionism","joseph-mengele","legislation","national-socialist","nazi","nazism","racism","scientific-racism","totalitarian","totalitarianism","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":48004,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign remedy simply cry out for more legislation.A sound and wise statesmanship which recognizes and attempts to abide by its limitations will undoubtedly find itself displaced by that type of public official who promises much, talks much, legislates much, expends much, but accomplishes little.The deliberate, sound judgement of the country is likely to find it has been superseded by a popular whim.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["government","legislation","limits-of-government"],"id":57233,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["diplomacy","diplomatic","diplomatic-relations","diplomats","legislation","legislative","legislative-debates","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","political","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","statemen","statesman","statesmanship"],"id":115991,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.","author":"Frédéric Bastiat","tags":["god","law","legislation","liberty","man","politics"],"id":135789,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastiat"},{"text":"We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin).","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["food","legislation","politics"],"id":163884,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"Under a system in which no single question is submitted to the electorate for direct decision, an ardent minority for or against a particular measure may often count for more than an apathetic majority.","author":"Patrick","tags":["democracy","law","legislation","lobbying","lobbyists"],"id":174831,"author_id":"Patrick"},{"text":"Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["electricity","evolution","gravity","legislation","microscope","politics","science","spectroscope","speed-of-light","telescope","truth"],"id":186842,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["law","legislation"],"id":201276,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"•\tScientific and medical studies, research or evidence is either distorted and misrepresented, or disputed or outright ignored by opponents whose views are threatened by the facts, in public shows of articles, statements, websites and even legislation. Scientific facts are ignored or dismissed as being ‘a liberal agenda’ or ‘merely propaganda’.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","and","articles","distorted","facts","in","legislation","liberal","misrepresented","or","outright","propaganda","public","research","scientific","statements","studies","views","websites","whose"],"id":252495,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.","author":"Kirk Chisholm","tags":["behavior","behavioral-economics","business","finance","human-nature","legislation","psychology","regulations","self-help"],"id":255397,"author_id":"Kirk+Chisholm"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}