Quote by Garrett Hardin
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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

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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

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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

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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. – Garrett Hardin

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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. – Mitt Romney

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

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