Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 11

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• Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

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  Tribes, Injustice, Sin

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan

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• Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

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  Peace, War, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

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  Men, Style

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Methuselah's Children”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

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  Men, Survival, Needs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 16, p. 200, 1985.

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• There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

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  Writing, Way, Rooms

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• Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.

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  People, Mind, Pay

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Waldo & Magic, Inc.”, p.132, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

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  Elderly, Experts, Done

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• Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

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  Power, Sight, Black

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

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  Firsts, Waking, Crime

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

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  Leader, Democracy, Faults

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 232, 1991.

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• Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

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  Believe, Love Is, Bravery

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• "I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... "But that's not all people laugh at." "Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people."

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  Hurt, Real, People

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1961.

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• The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

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  Baby, Men, Principles

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

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  Religion, Priests, Function

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• Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

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  Wise, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• An armed society is a polite society.

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  Atheist, Gun, Society

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

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  Appreciation, Men, Genius

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

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  Accomplishment, Age, Youth

  "Methuselah's Children". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1958.

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• War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.

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  Peace, War, Simple

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.54, Penguin

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• Faith is intellectual laziness.

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  Intellectual, Intellectual Laziness, Laziness

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• It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

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  Men, Wife, Impossible

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

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  Thinking, Survival, Tag

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 35), 1987.

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• When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

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  Unbearable, Knows

  "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 7), 1958.

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• Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

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  Play, Want

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• The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

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  Responsibility, Differences, Safety

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