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Him Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
- By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own…
- I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and…
- Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a…
- 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…
- You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
- War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's…
- The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to…
- There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the…
- There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be…
- Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to…
- If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found…
- 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.
- Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If…
- A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill…
- Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must…
- 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…
- I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure…
- No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His…
- The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi