Robert A. Heinlein quotes - page 4

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you. View quote
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. View quote
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There is no safety this side of the grave. View quote
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My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself. View quote
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. View quote
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Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together. View quote
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To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. View quote
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. View quote
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Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. View quote
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Listen, son-most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better-and the vile ones are viler. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. View quote
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In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs. View quote
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me. View quote
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Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. View quote
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Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. View quote
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I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day. View quote
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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. View quote
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Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. View quote
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Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment. View quote
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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor. View quote
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The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally. View quote
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