« All From Quotes · Robert A. Heinlein's Page
From Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
- Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom…
- A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
- From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
- We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to…
- I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no…
- But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and…
- Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
- In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find…
- Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
- One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
- You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
- Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
- Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
- Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to…
- At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does…
- The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings…
- Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
More From Quotes
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt