Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
Garrett Hardin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Garrett Hardin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1915
Born: April 21
Died: 2003
Died: September 14
Biologist
Demographer
Ecologist
Statistician
University Teacher
Dallas
Texas
Garrett James Hardin
Garrett J. Hardin
Resources
Freedom
Individual
Action
World
Intolerable
Competitive
Limited
Total
More quotes by Garrett Hardin
Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
Garrett Hardin
The population problem has no technical solution it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
Garrett Hardin
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
Garrett Hardin
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
Garrett Hardin
Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
Garrett Hardin
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett Hardin
Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
Garrett Hardin
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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 enjoy it.
Garrett Hardin
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 commons.
Garrett Hardin
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
Garrett Hardin
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
Garrett Hardin
We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.
Garrett Hardin
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
Garrett Hardin
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
Garrett Hardin
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin
We see only what we have names for.
Garrett Hardin
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.
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 rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
Garrett Hardin
