Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. Kiss girls all you want to - it beats the hell out of card games. ROBERT HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange Land The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. ROBERT HEINLEIN, Have Space Suit-Will Travel A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.īeing a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. ROBERT HEINLEIN, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus LongĪ dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman. The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. HEINLEIN, Guest of Honor Speech, 3rd World Science Fiction Convention, Denver, Colorado, 'The Discovery of the Future', July 4, 1941 I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange LandĪ society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as 'worship.'

Lazarus long time enough for love