All Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein in
Religion
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. 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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein in
Religion
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
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