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 don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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