Robert A. Heinlein Moral Quotations

The early worm deserves the bird.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

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

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child.