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. HEINLEINJealousy 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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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.
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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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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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