Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 22

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• Secrecy begets tyranny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Political, Secrecy, Tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

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• The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Horse, Past, Engineering

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Faith, Intellectual, Negative

  "Stranger in a Strange Land " by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 233), 1991.

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• But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Intellectual, Religion

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• Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

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  Church, Thrive, Persecution

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Moral Behavior, Survival

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

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• Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

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  Men, Together, Illogical

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

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  Pain, Years, Survival

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.93, Penguin

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• If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Horse, Differences

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

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• By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Animal, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

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  Accomplishment, Luck, Tag

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

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  Girl, Butterfly, Mom And Daughter

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wild And Free, Vocal Cords, Vocal

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  School, Law, Gnats

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Economic, Pardon, Theory

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• A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Names, Cups

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.158, Penguin

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• If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

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  Dog, Ifs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

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• Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

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  Men, Space, Elbows

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

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  Science, Technology, Worry

  "Waldo & Magic, Inc". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1950.

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• The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

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  Motivational, Men, Monkeys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books

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• Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

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  Humanity, Being Human, Danger

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• Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Fishing, Dancing

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• Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Rude, Known

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• All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

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  Beautiful, Motivation, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

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