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Category: Control

The state should control all births.

“The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.”

- Kenneth Boulding


Each child belongs to the state.

“Each child belongs to the state.”

- William Seawell


Mass psychology can achieve world government.

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology. . . . Various results will soon be arrived at: that the influence of home is obstructive. . . . Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. . . . Educational propaganda, with government help, could achieve this result in a generation. There are, however, two powerful forces opposed to such a policy: one is religion; the other is nationalism. . . . A scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a world government.”

- Bertrand Russell , 1953.


U.S. power should be inferior.

“There has to be some power in the world superior to our own.”

- Andy Rooney


We will stop hunting in the U.S.

“If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. [. . .] Only 7% of Americans are hunters. That means there are more of us than there are of them. It is simply a matter of democracy. The majority rules in a democracy. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States. . . We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state.”

- Wayne Pacelle , 12-30-91.


We must impose a low standard of living on the world.

“[T]he only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.”

- Michael Oppenheimer


Mexicans will control California.

“California is going to be a Mexican state; we [Mexicans] are going to control all the institutions. If people don’t like it, they should leave.”

- Mario Obledo


Families should be forced to have no more than one child.

“Is it too far-fetched to imagine that one day people might be issued with a warrant entitling them to have a single child — a type of green stamp? This warrant might even carry commercial value, allowing individuals to decide not to have children at all and to sell their entitlements to others wanting larger families.”

- Norman Myers


The government must regulate church schools.

“The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.”

- Peter Hoagland , 1983 (approximately).


Parents relinguish their rights when their kids are in school.

“[P]arents give up their rights when they drop children off at public School.”

- Melinda Harmon