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. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible 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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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