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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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