Top 81 Hardin Quotes
#1. Hardin, as he sat at the foot of the table, speculated idly as to just what it was that made physical scientists such poor administrators. It might be merely that they were too used to inflexible fact and far too unused to pliable people.
Isaac Asimov
#3. Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.
Bob Marshall
#4. Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.
Herman E. Daly
#5. Hardin lived in a world he manipulated day to day, you never knew when a piece of information might have a use. Life was a jigsaw puzzle someone had kicked apart on the day Hardin was born and he was still putting it back together a piece at a time.
William Gay
#6. Hardin is like a drug; each time I take the tiniest bit of him, I crave more and more. He consumes my thoughts and invades my dreams.
Anna Todd
#7. I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don't love the person, they can't break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don't think there are any more pieces to break.
And I love him. I love Hardin.
Anna Todd
#9. It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
Isaac Asimov
#10. You took something from me that wasn't yours, Hardin. That was meant for someone who loved me, loved me truthfully. It was his, whoever he is, and you took that...
Anna Todd
#11. The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
Garrett Hardin
#12. It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Garrett Hardin
#14. 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
#15. The mathematics of biological reproduction is logically identical with the mathematics of usury. Money earns interest, animals have babies. In
Garrett Hardin
#16. 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 a taboo.
Garrett Hardin
#17. 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
#19. You... You make me want to be good, for you...
Anna Todd
#20. No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin
#21. I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
Melora Hardin
#22. My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.
Hardin B. Jones
#23. 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.
Garrett Hardin
#24. the only person worth trusting...entirely...is you~
B.M. Hardin
#25. I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.
Melora Hardin
#26. A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Garrett Hardin
#27. Beginning in 1940, ... questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer ... the proportion of 'cancer' cures ... increased rapidly ...
Hardin B. Jones
#28. The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
Garrett Hardin
#29. 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
#30. But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Garrett Hardin
#31. 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.
Garrett Hardin
#32. In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Garrett Hardin
#33. The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett Hardin
#35. I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.
Melora Hardin
#36. An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
Garrett Hardin
#37. Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett Hardin
#38. The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Garrett Hardin
#39. It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's competency in numerate matters. Numeracy
Garrett Hardin
#40. You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.
Garrett Hardin
#41. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.
Garrett Hardin
#42. Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.
Garrett Hardin
#43. Let's go inside. The trees are swaying back and forth. I think that is my cue I've had way too much to drink.
Anna Todd
#44. The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
Garrett Hardin
#46. Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin
#47. Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
Garrett Hardin
#48. The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease ... Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly ... are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated' ...
Hardin B. Jones
#49. Shock therapy has arguably created a large block of politicized people ready to vote for someone, perhaps a militarist, a quasifascist, or an old-style Communist, to undo the transitional order that has harmed them.
Russell Hardin
#50. 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
#51. Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett Hardin
#52. It is not possible to make a certain evaluation ... that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.
Hardin B. Jones
#55. Live in the moment. Day by day! Tomorrow isnt promised so if you thought about it ... even just for a second ... DO IT!
B.M. Hardin
#56. I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.
Melora Hardin
#57. Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!
If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins
Paula V. Hardin
#58. 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
#59. But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
Garrett Hardin
#60. In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin
#61. I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.
Melora Hardin
#63. Forgiveness is so powerful. You give a person so much power over you when you are unable to let go and simply forgive.
B.M. Hardin
#64. In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
Garrett Hardin
#65. Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.
Garrett Hardin
#66. The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
Garrett Hardin
#67. Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
Garrett Hardin
#68. Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
Garrett Hardin
#69. I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
Melora Hardin
#70. 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
#71. Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin
#72. A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. A bullet to the back of the head demonstrates good judgement.
John Wesley Hardin
#73. I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.
Isaac Asimov
#74. You know when you play Pictionary and someone draws a state? My biggest fear is that I'm not gonna know what state it is. I'm so bad at geography.
Melora Hardin
#75. Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
Garrett Hardin
#76. I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.
Melora Hardin
#77. Just please stay. I am begging you and I don't beg, Theresa.
Anna Todd
#78. This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19]
Michael Hardin
#79. You'll never know everything about the person you've chosen to marry. But the more information you have before entering into this commitment, the less chance you will be confronted with unfulfillable expectations.
Jerry Hardin
#80. Close your eyes. Grab a hand. And jump! Your destiny is waiting for you at the bottom!
B.M. Hardin
#81. A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
Garrett Hardin
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