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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c21a3f | Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together. | expertise integration openness professionalism specialization | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| afa12d1 | The Mother Thing makes our world. | education maturation parenthood perspective | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| f932632 | have time to take out your soul and look at it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 03c9a2f | A military hierarchy automatically places a premium on conservative behavior and dull conformance with precedent; it tends to penalize original and imaginative thinking. Commodore Arkwright realized that these tendencies are inherent and inescapable; he hoped to offset them a bit by setting up a course that could not be passed without original thinking. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 575fdad | An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9f4e603 | Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amount of talk we come up with some jury-rigged way to do it without getting anybody's head bashed in. That's politics. The only other way to settle a dispute is by bashing a few heads in ... and that is what happens when one or both sides is no lon.. | discourse political-science politics understanding | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 61d0eeb | It is a region of high plains and of mountains, having limited fertility but esteemed for natural beauty. Its | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0a23faa | Africa and Europe responded more sensibly but differently. Life has never been sacred in Africa and those who went sight-seeing on targets got little bleeding-heart treatment. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 15c9797 | The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it." | religion-and-philoshophy religion-christianity | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 18e131b | Uh, all right. Boss, you're infuriating when you're logical!" "Yes, a most uncouth way to argue." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 617724f | Jubal had long ago even foresworn pets, because he outlived them, or (worse yet) it was now possible that a pet would outlive him, be orphaned. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2cb2f49 | Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely - smugly! - that of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital service - free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should pay for it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 324204e | I made a very important discovery at Camp Currie. Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you've ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple--asleep. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 05215c0 | Here's to alcoholic brotherhood . . . much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 29078db | Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 963f580 | There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader--when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8ce67bf | anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0266c70 | a government is a living organism. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. You hit it, it will fight back. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8a2e5f1 | I know where I came from--but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once--and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. | identity loneliness missing-something | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 2464c5c | and he has never | summer | Heinlein Robert A. | |
| 5d3f405 | he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5ec98b1 | War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c4b8ff1 | There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fabec41 | intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else--only he had better not be)," | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e12e35c | Winslow says I don't understand plotting and probably I don't - I have been congratulated many times on the skill shown in my plotting when I knew damn well that the story in question had not been plotted in advance at all. My notion of a story is an interesting situation in which a human being has to cope with a problem, does so, and thereby changes his personality, character, or evaluations in some measure because the coping has forced hi.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9332759 | Terra had climbed well beyond that which its | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d2a8f99 | Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4f8342e | A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 057ec33 | It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has. | nature nurture truth upbringing | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 1705996 | Any custom is man-made and is therefore a finite attempt to describe an infinity of relationships. It follows as the night from day that any custom necessarily has its exceptions. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b3fef34 | joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a54b329 | from George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra: "Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 534f4c3 | The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2630ff9 | The discovery of life on Mars is something that, politically, they haven't figured out yet. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8fd07ec | An air car was just landing in the garden by the pool and beings under it were complaining of injuries and indignities done them. Perhaps this was the trouble he could feel? Grasses were for walking on, flowers and bushes were not--this was a wrongness. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| cc2bb20 | Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6e5d38c | Admittedly, what he had seen only the day before in this very room was just as intellectually stupefying as these later events--but the emotional impact was something else. A mouse was as much a miracle of biology as was an elephant; nevertheless there was an important difference--an elephant was bigger. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 43da109 | I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? | work | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 06e2e49 | Jill tried to reswallow her stomach. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| efe9443 | Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort." He" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8dca158 | Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8228747 | And you, Edward? Is there something in this world for which you'd surrender your life and your soul, if need be? You need not answer--I saw in your face and in your heart, last night, as you bent over the bed. Good art, good art--both of you. I have found several sorts of good and original art in this world, enough to justify encouraging your Artist to try again. But there was so much that was bad, poorly drawn and amateurish, that I could .. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| cf56174 | Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 780077d | See here, son, if a deputy sheriff beats a prisoner to death, it's sweepstakes odds that the county commissioners didn't order it, didn't know it, and wouldn't have permitted it had they known. At worst they shut their eyes to it--afterwards--rather than upset their own applecarts. But assassination has never been an accepted policy in this country. | Robert A. Heinlein |