Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 4

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• Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

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  Friendship, Love Is, Horny

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• Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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  Wings, People, Brain

  "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 9), 1958.

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• Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

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  Nature, Men, Self

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

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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

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  Missing You, Strong, Drinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

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  Race, People, Desire

  "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 352), August 1988.

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• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

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  Friendship, Peace, Hate

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

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  Sleep, Enough Sleep, Enough

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.46, Penguin

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• Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

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  Men, Mind, Bombs

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.318, Macmillan

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• Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

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  Stupid, Execution, Pity

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• Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Play

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• The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

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  Humour, Prove, Collections

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Chapter XXXVIII, p. 377, 1980.

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• Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

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  Liberty, Debt, Benefits

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

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• My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

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  Opportunity, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

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  Doubt, May, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.321, Penguin

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• Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

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  Gun, Law, Tyrants

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• A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

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  Marriage, Husband, Thinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.

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  Children, Luxury, Perfect

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

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• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

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  Learning, Math, Shoes

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.

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  Peace, War, Cities

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• If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

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  Cat, Men, Treats

  "The Door Into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 1), 1957.

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• There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.

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  Funny, Lying, Animal

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

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  Thinking, People, Fractions

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• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

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  Inspirational, Badass, Work

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• God created men to test the souls of women.

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  Men, Soul, Tests

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

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• A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.

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  Strong, Fire, Judging

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