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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
— Garrett Hardin
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
— Garrett Hardin
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
— Garrett Hardin
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
— 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
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
— Garrett Hardin
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
— 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
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin
Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
— Garrett Hardin
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."
— Peter Block
The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
— Garrett Hardin
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
— Garrett Hardin
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
— Garrett Hardin
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
— Garrett Hardin
Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.
— Joyce Meyer
We see only what we have names for.
— Garrett Hardin
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
— Garrett Hardin
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
— Garrett Hardin
I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
— Jimmy Carr
The mathematics of biological reproduction is logically identical with the mathematics of usury. Money earns interest, animals have babies. In
— Garrett Hardin
You cannot do only one thing.
— Garrett Hardin
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
— David Byrne
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
— Garrett Hardin
The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.
— Garrett Hardin
Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
— Garrett Hardin
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
— Garrett Hardin
