Freedom Quote by Garrett Hardin Download Open image “Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.” — Garrett Hardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics — Clare Short Copy Share Image
“For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms on which… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 by-everyone else:… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask,… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.” — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
