No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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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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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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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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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