Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
