Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 3

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• Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

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  Mind, Kitten, Made

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• Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

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  Future, Past, History

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

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  Religious, Prayer, Real

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• I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

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  Thinking, Police, Citizens

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 401), 1967.

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• The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

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  Fighting, Police, Stronger

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

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

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  Wisdom, Peace, Freedom

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• 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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  Atheist, Government, Church

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

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• Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

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  Happiness, Children, Lying

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

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  Believe, Religion, Worship

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Political

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

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• Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Self

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• The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

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  Battle, Price Of Freedom, Willingness

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

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  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

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  Believe, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.75, Macmillan

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• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

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  Badass, Preparation, Luck

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

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  Humour, Prove, Collections

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Chapter XXXVIII, p. 377, 1980.

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• If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

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  Doubt, May, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.321, Penguin

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

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  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

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  Rude, Happiness And Love, Duty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

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  Dirty, Men, Special

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• God created men to test the souls of women.

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  Men, Soul, Tests

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

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• Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

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  Hurt, Lying, Religion

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.

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  Children, Luxury, Perfect

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

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

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  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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