Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
Robert A. HeinleinSince survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
Robert A. HeinleinBut when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink inโ proud to use the title. I wonโt touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
Robert A. HeinleinTake sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.
Robert A. Heinlein