Accounts Quote by Garrett Hardin

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

— Garrett Hardin

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

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

— Garrett Hardin

“Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.”

— Garrett Hardin

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

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

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

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

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

— Garrett Hardin

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

— Garrett Hardin

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

— Garrett Hardin

Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

— Garrett Hardin