Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 7

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• The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, War, Winning

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• First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.401, Penguin

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• Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

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  Socialist, Bloody

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• I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

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  Love, Giving, Essentials

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• A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Science, Men

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

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• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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  Life, Success, Inspire

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• Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

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  Voting, Historical, Majority

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

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  Sight, Giving, Perspective

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

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

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  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

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  Running, Responsibility, Government

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.230, Penguin

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• Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

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  Tired, Decision, Hungry

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

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• I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

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  Latin, Saws, Seems

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

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• More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

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  People, Worry

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Mind, Religion

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Groups, Moral, Members

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

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• Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
  without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

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  Men, Groups, Halos

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

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  Police, Christ, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Penguin

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• Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

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  Life, Minutes

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

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• It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

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  May, Lions, Easier

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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  Learning, Libertarian, Young

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

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  Thinking, Pay

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Animal, Spirit

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

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• In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

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  Tolerance, Different, Moral

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• I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

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• No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Age, Eighteen

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