Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
Robert A. HeinleinMen are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.
Robert A. HeinleinThe average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
Robert A. Heinlein