Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI 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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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