Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 9

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• You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupid, Results, Malice

  "Logic of Empire" (1941).

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• I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Religion, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

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• ...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

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  Communication, Practice, Revolution

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• For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

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  Civilization, Atheism, Polite

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

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• I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

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  Laughing, Able, Complicated

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 442), 1987.

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• There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

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  Girl, Cat, Drawing

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• As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.

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  Fighting, Sides, Artillery

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

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• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

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  Odds, Understanding, Delay

  "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 334), August 1988.

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• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

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  Men, Democracy, Assumption

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Honesty, Believe

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

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  Liberty, Selfishness, Libertarian

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

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

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  Atheist, Cat, Dark

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

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• The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

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  Country, Fashion, Religious

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• The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

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  Race, Eggs, Space

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• English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

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  Vocabulary, Way, Tongue

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• I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Things In Life, People

  "Famous Quotes About Sex" by Ron Grisham, March 18, 2017.

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• Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

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  Law, Schedules, Built

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

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• Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

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  Lying, Fire, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.56, Penguin

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• When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

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  Exercise, Political, Violence

  "Fictional character: Jean Rasczak". "Starship Troopers", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

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  Real, Commodity, Real Value

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

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  Trust, Skeptical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

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  Years, Sweat, Skulls

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

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  Inspirational, Mom, Mother

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

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  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

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  Courage, Fear, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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