American - Environmentalist | April 21, 1915 - September 14, 2003
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
Garrett Hardin
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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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.
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