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

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.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Animal, Men
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Robert A. Heinlein
Accomplishment, Luck, Tag
Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Robert A. Heinlein
Girl, Butterfly, Mom And Daughter
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

Robert A. Heinlein
Space, Orbit, Earth

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

Robert A. Heinlein
Wild And Free, Vocal Cords, Vocal
Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.10, Hachette UK

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

Robert A. Heinlein
School, Law, Gnats
"Stranger in a Strange Land".

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

Robert A. Heinlein
Butterfly, Giving, Rainbow
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein
Economic, Pardon, Theory

A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.

Robert A. Heinlein
Girl, Names, Cups
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.158, Penguin

If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Robert A. Heinlein
Dog, Ifs
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Robert A. Heinlein
Men, Space, Elbows
Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

Robert A. Heinlein
Science, Technology, Worry
"Waldo & Magic, Inc". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1950.

A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

Robert A. Heinlein
Rights, Natural, Humans
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.95, Penguin

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

Robert A. Heinlein
Stars, Honesty, Believe
"This I Believe", 1952.

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

Robert A. Heinlein
Pride, Fishing, Dancing

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.

Robert A. Heinlein
Rude, Known

How can you argue with a woman who won't?

Robert A. Heinlein
Arguing
Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

Robert A. Heinlein
Fiction, Answers, Astronomy

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

Robert A. Heinlein
Beautiful, Motivation, Men
Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

Robert A. Heinlein
Way, Civilized, Tamed

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.

Robert A. Heinlein
Race, World, Scientific Method

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

Robert A. Heinlein
Men, Unbiased, Critics
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

Everybody lies about sex.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sex, Lying, Everybody Lies
Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

Robert A. Heinlein
Witty, Alcohol, Political
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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