Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Choices, Challenges

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.65, Hachette UK

• There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Cutting, Gambling

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

• There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Lying, Animal

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Sacrifice, Two

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.241, Penguin

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