Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
men prejudice logic
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
freedom mistress matter
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
death suicide men
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
running responsibility government
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
men sweat training
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.
clever pride company
A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
law seems
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
use share figures
The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.
men volunteer important
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
voting historical records
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
fashion atheist freedom
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
writing cutting important
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
mature masters equal
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
mature masters equal
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'