Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• 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

• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Luxury, Perfect

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

• Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Aunt, Men, Morality

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

• The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Groups, Morality

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