Garrett Hardin Quotes

You cannot do only one thing.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.