Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Roots, Evil

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

• Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1953). “Assignment in Eternity”

• Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Evil, Goodness

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Evil, Cold

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

• Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupid, Animal, Men

• The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called 'Morals.' Most of us know the code is wrong, almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the code rides us, dead and stinking, an albatross around the neck.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Evil, Giving

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.341, Penguin

• Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Revolt in 2100". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1953.

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