“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Remind me," Jubal said to her, "to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the… — 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
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