All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
Robert A. HeinleinIn Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
Robert A. HeinleinNo storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Robert A. HeinleinAn armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein