“The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.” WayDoeNamesSurvivalWeaknessStupidityStrongestSurvivorDarwinismForts Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration
“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.” GivingOpportunitySocialSurvivalDarwinismSurvival Of The FittestCarnegieSocial Darwinism Author:David Nasaw
“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRunningAsksMistakeCompanyFailingIndustryTerribleSurvivalBiggerMaking MistakesReverseDarwinism Author:Peter Schiff
“Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.” PeopleThinkingWayMayLongPrinciplesTechnologyModernSurvivalMedicineStartingShopsPairsSupporterGrandparentNew TechnologyDarwinismSurvival Of The FittestModern MedicineFeckless Author:Andy Rooney
“People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.” PeopleKnowsYearsFunNaturalAnimalSpecialDangerousHavensEvolutionSurvivalSmarterSelectionDinosaursNatural SelectionDarwinism Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.” LittlesTwoGuyNumbersStupidGoes OnSurvivalDefinitionsBrilliantSurvivorSmarterCeoDarwinismTime Goes OnTwo Guys Author:Carl Icahn
“Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did the eye evolve? The idea behind Darwinism is that organisms adapt, and that nature selects only those genetic changes which are the mutations that serve a good purpose for adaptation. So taken this way, the eye cannot develop gradually because one-thousandth or one-millionth of an eye would be of no value for survival. So generally this question rules out Darwinism as an adequate theory for macro-evolution.” EyePurposeValuesTakenEvolutionSurvivalEvolveAdaptationDarwinism Author:Ricky Ray
“Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.” LifeMayCompassionClearModernKeysSurvivalTraitsAltruismRuthlessRobbersDarwinismRobber Baron Author:Carl Sagan
“It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm.” KnowsIdeasFeelingsCarePoliticalSocialClearTruth IsSurvivalConcernRealmsDisgustingCoinsEvokeDoubtfulDarwinismSurvival Of The FittestSocial Darwinism Author:George H. Smith