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. HEINLEINI never learned from a man who agreed with me.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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