Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 2

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• The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

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  Athlete, People, United States

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• Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

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  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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• Love your country, but never trust its government.

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  Country, Love You, Government

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• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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  Sad, Stupid, Silly

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.36, Penguin

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

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  Gun, Men, Dangerous Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

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  Law, Political, Mind

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• At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

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  Running, Should Have, People

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 134, 1980.

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• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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  Wisdom, Mind Your Own Business, Ninety

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• Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

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  Lying, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1953). “Assignment in Eternity”

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

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  Two, Mind, Important

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• Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

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  Mind, Kitten, Made

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• No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

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  Fake, Psychology, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.112, Penguin

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• I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

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  Thinking, Police, Citizens

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 401), 1967.

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• Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

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  Happiness, Children, Lying

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

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  Rude, Happiness And Love, Duty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Self

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• There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

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  Men, Thinking, Political

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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  Farewell, Childhood, Authority

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• You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

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  Running, Arms

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

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  Gun, Society, May

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

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• The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

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  Freedom, Democracy, Opinion

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• People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

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  Believe, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

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  Fighting, Police, Stronger

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

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