Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Farewell, Childhood, Authority

• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Mind, Important

• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Exercise, Political, Violence

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

• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Law, Tyrants

• To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Authority, Disaster, Permit

• 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

  Writing, Done, Authority

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

• The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nice, Religion, Citing

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.57, Hachette UK

• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Responsibility, Government

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

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