Robert A. Heinlein Quotes:
Ocupation: Science writer
Life: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
Birthday: July 7
Death: May 8
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin
topic: Children, Luxury, Perfect, Perfect Society, Adornment
