Humans Quote by Garrett Hardin Download Open image “The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.” — Garrett Hardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Uncertain Unreliability World
The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world. — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image