Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 16

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• Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Aunt, Men, Morality

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

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  Beauty, World, Waste

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

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  Peace, War, Mean

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.

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  Kissing, Moments, Stolen Kisses

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.175, Penguin

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• Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

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  Men, Months

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• From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

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  Views, Conceit, Point Of View

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 431), 1967.

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• Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Sells

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• Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

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  Real, Cures

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.177, Penguin

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• It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

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  Sarcastic, Lying, Able

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.34, Penguin

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• A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

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  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

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• Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

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  Example, News, Littles

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

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  Men, Nurse, Wife

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.171, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

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  Heart, Cutting, Gambling

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

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• In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

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  Past, Government, Sometimes

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Ch. 22, 1966.

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• Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Self

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• 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.

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  Eye, Men, Race

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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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 the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

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  Running, Long, Volunteer

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• Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.

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  Wise, Kings, Men

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• Life is short, but the years are long.

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  Life Is Short, Years, Long

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

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• Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

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  Sex, Genius, Monkeys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

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  Learning, Creativity, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.32, Penguin

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• "Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

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  Peace, Military, War

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

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  Hate, Fool, Pleasure

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

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  Truth, Fool, Sadistic

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

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