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Robert A. Heinlein

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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy “ in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Robert A. Heinlein
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
Woman and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's ˜magic' is another man's engineering. ˜Supernatural' is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
Robert A. Heinlein
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries but it is a force stronger than crime.
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
Don't ever become a pessimist a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein
Almost any sect cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of but do it in private and wash your hands afterward.
Robert A. Heinlein
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
Robert A. Heinlein
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
Robert A. Heinlein
Unarmed hand to hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
Robert A. Heinlein
Television leaves no external scars.
Robert A. Heinlein
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
Robert A. Heinlein
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein
Hate always sells well but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert A. Heinlein
The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.
Robert A. Heinlein
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein
Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
Robert A. Heinlein
Life is short, but the years are long.
Robert A. Heinlein
Citizenship is an attitude a state of mind an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part. and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
Robert A. Heinlein
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
Robert A. Heinlein
Ability is a wonderful thing but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master'.
Robert A. Heinlein
Youre in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
Robert A. Heinlein
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anybody can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be.
Robert A. Heinlein
One mans magic is another mans engineering. Supernatural is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.
Robert A. Heinlein
Progress doesn't come from early risers - progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert A. Heinlein
Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.
Robert A. Heinlein
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Robert A. Heinlein
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
Robert A. Heinlein
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor make him pay cash.
Robert A. Heinlein
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
Progress isnt made by early risers. Its made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and you annoy the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Robert A. Heinlein
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
Robert A. Heinlein
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein
Being a mother is an attitude not a biological relation.
Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Robert A. Heinlein
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein
There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men.
Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert A. Heinlein
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never tease an old dog he might have one bite left.
Robert A. Heinlein
In a dilemma it is helpful to change any variable then reexamine the problem.
Robert A. Heinlein
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Robert A. Heinlein
Delusions are often functional. A mothers opinions about her childrens beauty intelligence goodness et cetera ad nauseam keep her from drowning them at birth.
Robert A. Heinlein

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