Garrett Hardin Quotes

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. - Garrett Hardin

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born. - Garrett Hardin

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. - Garrett Hardin

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. - Garrett Hardin

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. - Garrett Hardin

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. - Garrett Hardin

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. - Garrett Hardin

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. - Garrett Hardin

Incommensurables cannot be compared. - Garrett Hardin

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. - Garrett Hardin

Page 2 of 4

<<-First <-Previous Next -> Last ->>