No, my dear, you have a cultivated conscience, a most carefully trained one. 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.
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| — | Heinlein, Robert. Starship Troopers. New York: Ace, 1987. p.119. |