Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Safety

Quotes about: Safety

• What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

• At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Should Have, People

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 134, 1980.

• The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Responsibility, Differences, Safety

• There is no safety this side of the grave

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Safety, Sides, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.228, Penguin

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