I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.
Robert A. HeinleinIt may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
Robert A. HeinleinThe less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Robert A. HeinleinWar is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.
Robert A. Heinlein