Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Never be too confident or ndomdoubtful when everything is uncertain in this world.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.