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.
More Quotes from Garrett Hardin:
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.Garrett Hardin
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.
Garrett Hardin
The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit.
Garrett Hardin
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
You cannot do only one thing.
Garrett Hardin
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Education Quotes, Generation QuotesBased on Keywords: counteract, inexorable, refreshed
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
Julie Harris
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
Afrika Bambaataa
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker Yockey