Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• 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

• Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Years, Survival

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.93, Penguin

• Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Survival, Fiction

• Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Moral Behavior, Survival

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

• What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Survival, Tag

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 35), 1987.

• Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Survival, Needs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 16, p. 200, 1985.

• In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Order, Survival

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