Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Emotional

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.127, Penguin

• Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sacrifice, Pay, Jolly

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

• 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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