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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89b138a | Customs, morals--is there a difference? | society morals | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| cdd0c18 | Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies. | emergencies studies the-bible | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 0cb6622 | Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.' 'Whose family?' 'A death in yours, if you insist. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a819c82 | The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 64ccea9 | Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c9c2e53 | He] stopped long enough to remind himself that this baby innocent was neither babyish nor innocent -- was in fact sophisticated in a culture which he was beginning to realize, however dimly, was far in advance of human culture in some very mysterious ways... and that these naive remarks came from a superman -- or what would do in place of a 'superman' for the time being. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5e5763e | Sit back down--and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 13b3cdb | A poisonous snake is not dangerous, not any more than a loaded gun is dangerous--in each case, if you handle it properly. The thing that made that coral snake dangerous was that I hadn't known what it was, what it could do. If, in my ignorance, I had handled it carelessly, it would have killed me as casually and as innocently as a kitten scratches. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ff50b33 | The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 91dc9fb | Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is about eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Democracy's worst faults is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents - a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1c867af | Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a2c996f | Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 974320d | We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a9160f6 | most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 561ff31 | Still rarer is the man who thinks habitually, who applies reason, rather than habit pattern, to all his activity. Unless he masques himself, his is a dangerous life; he is regarded as queer, untrustworthy, subversive of public morals; he is a pink monkey among brown monkeys -- a fatal mistake. Unless the pink monkey can dye himself brown before he is caught. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9194e1e | What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce--render emotional-his audience, each time. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 02baeee | A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b444845 | There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. Jill Boardman encountered her personal challenge - and accepted it - at 3:47." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e6b2314 | I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f2a0220 | Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it--especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1dd4961 | There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7312d88 | For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers. | philosophy whimsy | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| f5ac502 | Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: 'Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop.' Nyet, tovarisschee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them 'for.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bddddf1 | Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ca751d9 | All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one's earliest training. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 023f48c | There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 28432f1 | Because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 57616ad | I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0e3c5ea | Comrades, I beg you - do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| caff096 | From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 071915e | There is no safety this side of the grave. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 716cf0d | Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 89f988f | stupid races don't build spaceships!) | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b0072e3 | the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2d1eb68 | Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal--else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 93ea111 | I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either." -- | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2f462f3 | Dr. Jubal Harshaw, professional clown, amateur subversive, and parasite by choice, had long attempted to eliminate "hurry" and all related emotions from his pattern. Being aware that he had but a short time left to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in his own immortality, it was his purpose to live each golden moment as if it were eternity--without fear, without hope, but with sybaritic gusto." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 47778ad | The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever . . . I know where I came from--but where did all you zombies come from? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 82b3cf0 | Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that today's athletes churn through the rosters of sports teams so rapidly that a fan can no longer support a group of players. He is reduced to rooting for their team logo and uniforms: "You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city." -- | Steven Pinker | ||
| c0b73b3 | Not surprisingly, South Carolina acted first. "There is nothing in all the dark caves of human passion so cruel and deadly as the hatred the South Carolinians profess for the Yankees." wrote the correspondent of the London Times from Charleston. The enmity of Greek for Turk was child's play "compared to the animosity evinced by the 'gentry' of South Carolina for the 'rabble of the North.' ... The State of South Carolina was,' I am" -- | James M. McPherson | ||
| b9b2c56 | His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7" | James M. McPherson | ||
| b611948 | So how do you find out what someone does for a living? (I thought you'd never ask.) You simply practice the following eight words. All together now: "How . . . do . . . you . . . spend . . . most . . . of . . . your . . . time?" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 504f64a | His feet where retarded. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 40e4524 | She thinks my name is Freddie, you know, but of course it ain't. I always tell these people some name like that, because if they got onto your right name they might use it sometime. Understand? | Stephen Crane |