Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either. - Robert A. Heinlein

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

It is an emotional impossibility for any man to believe in his own death.