For Us, the Living Quotes

“You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and the planets wheel in their proper places. Once in a while the lonely, broken spirit of man is healed and made whole. For a while his quest is over and his questions are answered.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“There are kisses and kisses. Some are given in sport and some in passion. There are formal kisses of greeting and departure, and there are perfunctory pecks of accustomed affection. Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and the planets wheel in their proper places. Once in a while the lonely, broken spirit of man is healed and made whole. For a while his quest is over and his questions are answered.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“As a matter of practice a man usually finds that he has lost nothing at all by ceasing to respond to the emotion of jealousy. Strictly from a biological point of view there is much data to prove that potential capacity for sexual indulgence is much greater in most women than it is in most men, so much so, that an average woman could be the mistress of, let us say, two or three average men without loss to the men. On the spiritual side there is enough of the ‘Mother of All Living’ principle in the nature of any woman to permit her, if she chooses, to be the source of spiritual refreshment to many men. Any man who believes the contrary is a fool who judges the soul of woman by the paucity of his own. He need only look at the mother of any large brood to know that the capacity of a woman to replenish the soul with her love is limited only by the scope of her field.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

“No one partner in life can supply all the possible richnesses of living to another. I speak now not only of physical sexual associations, but also of associations mental and spiritual,”
― Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs