Alyssa

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A Heinlein, Friday

“Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein