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I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and im...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met ...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that in this case it would interfere to create a great evil; and I am not going to be turned from the discussion of that direct issue to bottomless bo...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It w...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never w...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State