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
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.
wise men law
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
school law gnats
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
law moral-behavior survival
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
daughter men law
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
winning lawyer lawsuit
Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.
law bugs privacy
The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.
education honest lawyer
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.
heart law people
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.
gun self law
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
law way written
Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
law people statistics
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.
men intelligent law
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
thinking law prudes
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.