History Quotes / TheSocialDarwinist

'''Justin:'''A few get lost along the way, yes, and that's unfortunate. I don't think it was ever easy, but you can't let that get in the way of the dream.

->'''Justin:''' It's really simple. You bring two sides together, they fight, a lot of them die. But those who survive are stronger, smarter, and better.\\
'''Mordin:''' It's like knocking over an anthill. Every new generation gets stronger. The anthill gets redesigned, made better.\\

'''Mordin:''' Think about it, Captain. Look at the long history of human struggle. Six thousand years of recorded wars, bloodshed, atrocities beyond all description. But look at what came out of all of that! We've gone to the stars, split the atom, written sonnets... We never would have come this far, if we hadn't been at each others' throats evolving our way up, inch by inch.

->''"What is good?—Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man."''\\
''"WhatIsEvil—Whatever springs from weakness."''\\
''"What is happiness?—The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtù, virtue free of moral acid)."''\\

''"What is more harmful than any vice?—Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak— Christianity…"''

-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''', ''RurouniKenshin'', laying this trope out in plain terms.

-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''''s life philosophy, from ''RurouniKenshin''

-->-- '''Charles zi Britannia''', ''CodeGeass''

-->-- '''Charles zi Brittania''', ''CodeGeass''

-->-- '''Philip Lombard''', ''{{Literature/And Then There Were None}}''

->''"What is good?—Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man."''\\
''"WhatIsEvil—Whatever springs from weakness."''\\
''"What is happiness?—The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtù, virtue free of moral acid)."''\\

''"What is more harmful than any vice?—Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak— Christianity…"''

-->--'''CharlesDarwin''', in [[WallOfText so many more words]]. If this was written by anybody else, expect the Social Darwinists here to denounce him as a WideEyedIdealist

->''The world lies. Thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not cheat, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife: all of these are lies! Mere illusion, nothing more. '''They''' don't want to be killed. '''They''' don't want to be robbed. Using the twin lies of justice and morality, the weak are endeavoring to protect themselves. But the first truth is that the strong devour the weak. So let us feed, upon people, upon wealth, upon riches and power. We of Brittania shall feast upon the raw flesh of the world itself. We must crush this deception and bring forth the truth. All hail Brittania!''

-->-- '''CharlesDarwin''', showing that [[MisaimedFandom the rest of them]] have [[YouFailBiologyForever never read his book]].

-->-- '''Apocalypse''', ''[[{{Series/X-Men}} X-Men The Animated Series]]''

-> ''It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. '''It is the one that is the most [[VivaLaEvolution adaptable]] to change.'''''

-> ''It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. '''It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'''''

-->--'''CharlesDarwin''', in [[WallOfText so many more words]]. If this was written by anybody else, the Social Darwinists here would denounce him as a WideEyedIdealist

->"Natural selection leaves the survivors ''STRONGER'' and ''BETTER!'' Humans have escaped this winnowing for '''FAR TOO LONG'''.

->"When did mankind lose touch with natural selection? No matter how inferior a human's genes are, that person is protected by laws, and can't be killed. Even those incapacitated in accidents or stricken with a serious illness are needlessly kept alive. What a drawn out, wasteful existence. It's this divorce from natural selection that has caused mankind to stop evolving. It's a step down. The devolution of mankind. But I intend to accelerate the culling of genetically inferior humans. To rekindle the refining fire of natural selection."

->''"If you're strong, you live; if you're weak, you die."''
-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''', ''RurouniKenshin'', laying this trope out in plain terms.

-> '''''It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'''''

-> '''''The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. ... We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.'''''
-->--'''CharlesDarwin''', in [[WallOfText so many more words]]. If this was written by anybody else, the Social Darwinists here would call him a WideEyedIdealist

-->-- '''TheBeatles''', ''Revolution''

-->-- DavidBowie, "Oh! You Pretty Things"

-->--'''CharlesDarwin''', in so many more words. If this was written by anybody else, the Social Darwinists here would criticize him as a WideEyedIdealist

-->-- '''Herbert Spencer''', ''The Principles of Biology'', (accidentally) further spreading the entire Social Darwinist ruckus throughout the world

->''The flesh of the weak is the food of the strong.''
-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''''s life philosophy, from ''RurouniKenshin''

->''"If you're strong, you live; if you're weak, you die."''
-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''', ''RurouniKenshin'', laying this trope out in plain terms.

%% Please place additional quotes above Darwin's own counterpoint, thank you.

-> ''''The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. ... We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.''''
-->--'''CharlesDarwin''', in so many more words.

->''This survival of the fittest, implies multiplication of the fittest.''
-->-- '''Herbert Spencer''', ''The Principles of Biology'', (accidentally) amplifying the entire Social Darwinist ruckus

->''Either the world will be ruled according to the ideas of our modern democracy, or the world will be dominated according to the natural law of force; in the latter case the people of brute force will be victorious.''

--> DavidBowie, "Oh! You Pretty Things"

-->-- '''CharlesDarwin''', showing that the rest of them have [[YouFailBiologyForever never read his book]].

-> ''It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.''

--.-- '''AdolfHitler''', ''Mein Kampf''

--> - TheBeatles, ''Revolution''

--> '''General Zaroff''', ''TheMostDangerousGame''

-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''', ''RurouniKenshin''

-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''' RurouniKenshin

-> ''"If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die."''
-->-- '''Makoto Shishio''' RurouniKenshin