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Category: Robert A. Heinlein

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

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

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

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