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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINA society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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 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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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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