Eugenics wars may refer to:
- In biopolitics, “eugenics wars” are sociopolitical conflicts characterized by coercive state-sponsored genetic discrimination and human rights violations such as compulsory sterilization of persons with genetic defects, the killing of the institutionalized and, specifically, segregation from, and genocide of, “races” perceived as inferior (see Edwin Black's 2003 nonfiction book War Against the Weak)
- In the Star Trek fictional universe, Eugenics Wars is a world war that occurred during the mid to late 1990s, in which the progeny of a human genetic engineering project established themselves as supermen and attempted world domination
- The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, a two volume set of novels written by Greg Cox about the life of the fictional Star Trek character Khan Noonien Singh
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“That doctrine [of peace at any price] has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)