Law Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

22 Law quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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Heinlein’s 22 musings on law stretch the imagination, projecting legal dilemmas into future societies. His speculative lens invites readers to consider how evolving technology might reshape our sense of justice.

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“Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law." "They are? Only from on top.”

Robert A. Heinlein

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It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

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Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

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A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

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No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

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The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

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

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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

Robert A. Heinlein

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Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at…

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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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Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…

Robert A. Heinlein

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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…

Robert A. Heinlein

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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for…

Robert A. Heinlein

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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil…

Robert A. Heinlein

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By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially…

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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were…

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The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit…

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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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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

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Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

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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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