#so

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

— Garrett Hardin

#earth #exhausting #favors #indeed #our

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

#contradiction #elsewhere #fire #fundamentalists #good

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

#best #commons #destination #each #freedom

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#coercion #create #produce #responsibility #social

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#also #been #made #making #miserable

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#away #england #get #good #mistress

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#deal #five #four #great #great deal

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#always #change #changes #everything #except

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter