Garrett Hardin Quotes

In some countries the effort to debate and legislate the social and ethical implications of the new biological and genetic technologies often precedes their application. This observation confirms the realization by the public that biotechnological applications will interfere with all the basic and profound value systems considered by every human being

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.