Home » Quote » Robert A. Heinlein » „An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.“ „An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.“ — Robert A. Heinlein Tags:Life Related quotes „True to the meaning of the rebel as one who renounces authority, he seeks primarily not the substitution of one political system for another. He may favor such a political change, but it is not his chief goal. He rebels for the sake of a vision of life and society which he is convinced is critically important for himself and his fellows. … the rebel fights not only for the relief of his fellow men but also for his personal integrity. For him these are but two sides of the same coin.“ — Rollo May „I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.“ — Albert Einstein „Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.“ — Confucius „Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.“ — Michael Parenti „The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.“ — Ernest Hemingway
„An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.“ — Robert A. Heinlein Tags:Life