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Robert A. Heinlein quotes

American Writer July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988

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There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time - we've never been told to go down and kill or... Robert A. Heinlein
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain. Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please..."
Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "One should not attend even the end of the world without a good..."
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god."
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god. Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Thou art God."
Thou art God. Robert A. Heinlein
Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more..."
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from..."
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Robert A. Heinlein
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'. Robert A. Heinlein
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded? here and there, now and then? are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck. Robert A. Heinlein
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter. Robert A. Heinlein
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) Robert A. Heinlein
Foster had in common with every great religious leader of that planet two traits: he had an extremely magnetic personality, and sexually he did not fall near the human norm. On Earth great religious leaders were always either celibate or the antithesis. Foster was not celibate. (p.289) Robert A. Heinlein

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