Robert A. Heinlein on Ethics
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #243543: "Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers."
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #179055: "Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be."
6 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein on Ethics
"Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers."
"Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be."
"Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards."
"But don’t say you don’t need money; that’s immoral."
"A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright."
"How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show — it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak."