Behavior Quote by Garrett Hardin

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than…

— Guy Standing

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

— Barbara Castle

If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the…

— Grover Norquist

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention…

— Garrett Hardin

Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety…

— P. J. O'Rourke

As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view…

— Frans de Waal

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

— Charlie Brooker

Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than…

— Milton Friedman

The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

Washington's a cesspool of money.

— Stewart Udall

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown…

— Hari Kunzru

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to…

— Arne Jacobsen