Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Things In Life, Agony

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

• Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Commodity, Real Value

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Effort, Birth

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

• I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Ideas, World

• The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Humour, Prove, Collections

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Chapter XXXVIII, p. 377, 1980.

• Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accountability, Wonderful, Dependability

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