Garrett Hardin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Incommensurables cannot be compared.”

“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.”

“The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.”

“Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?”

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.”

“The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.”

“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”

“Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.”

“The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.”