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This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
—Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, (accidentally) ruining Darwin's reputation forever
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"If you're strong, you live; if you're weak, you die."
—Makoto Shishio, Rurouni Kenshin, laying this trope out in plain terms.
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The flesh of the weak is the food of the strong.
—Makoto Shishio's life philosophy, from Rurouni Kenshin
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Inequality... is not wrong. EQUALITY IS!
—Charles zi Britannia, Code Geass
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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!
—Charles zi Brittania, Code Geass
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The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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The jigsaw piece that I cut from my subjects was only ever meant to be a symbol that that subject was missing something. A vital piece of the human puzzle. The survival instinct.
—Jigsaw, Saw II
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Come on, you've read Charles Darwin. It's called Survival of the Fittest. We're just helping to speed it to its logical conclusion.
—Commander Rourke, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
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I do not demand bootlicking from the higher mortal. I wish that he stand tall and forge for himself a path of greatness. You who are unwilling, you will do well to serve your masters - let yourself wear chains and serve a higher purpose, and be grateful. But if you count yourself a superior mortal, stand tall! Yet know that I will not be there to raise you up. You must raise yourself up, on your own terms. You must make yourself great, as I have forged superiority for myself.
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"Self-preservation is a man's first duty."
—Philip Lombard, And Then There Were None
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I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you. I am eternal.
—Apocalypse, X Men the Animated Series
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Natural selection leaves the survivors STRONGER and BETTER! Humans have escaped this winnowing for FAR TOO LONG.
—Albert Wesker, Resident Evil 5
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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.
—Hans Davis, Metal Gear Acid
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I refuse to believe that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life... Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use my gift? If I wish to hunt, why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships — lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels — a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.
—General Zaroff, The Most Dangerous Game
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"What is good?—Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man." —The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say you want a revolution —Revolution, by The Beatles
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Look out at your children —"Oh! You Pretty Things" by David Bowie
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I against my brother, my brother and I against my cousins, then my cousins and I against strangers.
—Bedouin saying probably overquoted by non-Bedouins
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Anyone who believes that the theory of evolution implies moral darwinism, and who also believes in the theory of gravity, has a moral duty to go jump off a cliff.
—Ari Rahikkala
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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. |
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.
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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.
—Charles Darwin, in so many more words. If this was written by anybody else, expect the Social Darwinists here to denounce him as a Wide-Eyed Idealist.
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