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eugenic

Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.

Well-born; of high birth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. Margaret Sanger

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." George Bernard Shaw

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. Havelock Ellis

Under the guise of eugenic improvement and racial purity, and what the implementation of eugenic measures could supposedly do to improve human society, notions of racial superiority continued in popularity, but with a purported scientific foundation. Daniel J. Fairbanks

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

My God! People! People!!! Do you not see where this goes??? Do the Dutch, who suffered under--and in many cases heroically resisted--Hitler's domination, forget that the "final solution" began with the dehumanization and eugenic killing of the handicapped? Robert P. George

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