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Commons Quotes by Garrett Hardin
- Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
- The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston Churchill
- There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon
- I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin
- In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty… — Bartholomew Roberts
- At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is… — Maude Barlow
- One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every… — Jeremy Rifkin
- Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and… — Willie Nelson
- When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court… — Helen McCrory
- The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be… — Douglas Alexander
- I have always been a House of Commons man. — John Diefenbaker