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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes about Survival

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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