Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• 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

  Men, Thinking, Political

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

• Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fashion, Atheist, Freedom

• Secrecy begets tyranny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Political, Secrecy, Tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

• 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

  Atheist, Government, Church

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.318, Macmillan

• Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trust, Secrecy, Tyranny

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

• In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Past, Government, Sometimes

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Ch. 22, 1966.

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