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
intellectual laziness strange
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
gun law tyrants
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
fighting gun men
An armed man need not fight.
funny crazy silly
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
hate long hatred
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
funny witty race
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
trust rate sooner-or-later
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
life-changing reason eternity
With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
fighting police stronger
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.
race way remember
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.
humanity being-human planets
Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.
corporations individual clock
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
men prison solitary
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
animal men data
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.