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. HEINLEINI don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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 handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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