Top 29 Quotes by Garrett Hardin

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

You cannot do only one thing.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.