Friday Quotes

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot...”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday