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. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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