Robert A. Heinlein Quote on Value and Cost in Life

„There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.“

Robert A. HeinleinQuote by Robert A. Heinlein on the value of life and the mistaken assumption of free goods in society and democracy.
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Robert A. Heinlein was an American science fiction author, known for his influential works and critical views on society and freedom.

Robert A. Heinlein criticizes the mistaken belief that valuable things in life can be free and warns of the consequences for society and democracy.


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Robert A. Heinlein quote about the value and cost of things in life

Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) was one of the most influential American science fiction writers of the 20th century. He was known for his critically satirical and socially conscious novels that often addressed political and philosophical themes such as freedom, individualism, and social control. Heinlein significantly shaped the genre and influenced generations of writers.

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"Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice." Walter Lippmann
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