I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWhen a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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