Social Darwinism Quotes

• No hubo ningún movimiento intelectual en la historia de Estados Unidos llamado darwinismo social. Las personas que supuestamente fueron los líderes del movimiento darwinista social nunca abrazaron algo llamado darwinismo social. No existió.

  Jonah Goldberg

  People, Leader, Intellectual

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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• The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.

  Anita Roddick

  Successful, Ideas, Important

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• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Two, Race, Europe

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.

  David Nasaw

  Opportunity, Giving, Survival

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• ... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Family, Politics, Lasts

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• Está claro que el 'darwinismo social' y la 'supervivencia del más apto' eran la intención de Obama para evocar sentimientos de miedo y repugnancia. Es muy dudoso que Obama sepa algo sobre la historia de estas ideas, y es aún más dudoso que le importe. La preocupación por la verdad no es la moneda del reino político.

  George H. Smith

  Ideas, Political, Feelings

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• Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Support, Fool

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• Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

  Peter Singer

  Long, Littles, Philosopher

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• ... ningún dato convincente que apoye su anacrónico darwinismo social.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Data, Support, Atheism

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.238, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No defiendo el darwinismo social, soy testigo del darwinismo real.
  Si estás en un campamento con un grupo de campistas, y un oso ataca, no tienes que ser más rápido que el oso.
  Sólo tienes que ser más rápido que el campista más lento.

  Michael Ruppert

  Bears, Social, Advocating

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