Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI never learned from a man who agreed with me.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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