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. HEINLEINI am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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 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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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