Garrett Hardin said this quote

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

~ Garrett Hardin

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

~ Garrett Hardin

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?

~ Garrett Hardin

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

~ Garrett Hardin