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Men Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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A man is his own prisoner, locked in solitary thoughts that shape his choices. Heinlein’s verses also highlight how imagination and loyalty can lift social responsibility above family, while a clever shortcut can turn lazy thinking into progress. The quotes mix humor about persuasion with serious reflections on duty.

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All men are created unequal.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

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An armed man need not fight.

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If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

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Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

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No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

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God created men to test the souls of women.

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A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

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If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

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Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

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There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

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You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

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Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

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Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a…

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There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill…

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Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million…

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A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic…

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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be…

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It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse…

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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be…

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I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.…

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Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind…

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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or…

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

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There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"…

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Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead.…

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Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been…

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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which…

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The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty…

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You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time…

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But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will…

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Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man…

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“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has…

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

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Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes…

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Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was…

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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

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“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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