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Robert A. Heinlein

American author and aeronautical engineer

1907–1988

34 quotes, most often on Morality, Life & Death and Laws. Part of the Writers collection.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.
I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 25, p. 442
- Laughter
- Life & Death
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Starship Troopers (1959)
- Morality
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
- Morality
As for libertarian, I’ve been one all my life, a radical one. You might use the term “philosophical anarchist” or “autarchist” about me, but “libertarian” is easier to define and fits well enough.
Statement to Judith Merril (1975), as quoted in William H. Patterson Jr., Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 2 (2014)
- Liberty
- Politics

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