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"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."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
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"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
"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."
"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution."
"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
"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."
"The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected."
"A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality."
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