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 Read Quote
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. Garrett Hardin Read Quote
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. Garrett Hardin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. Garrett Hardin Read Quote
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. Garrett Hardin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. Garrett Hardin Read Quote
