An armed society is a polite society.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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