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Most Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
- Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
- Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.
- Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting…
- The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine…
- Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing,…
- 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…
- The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably…
- You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
- The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
- Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
- One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- 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…
- Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one…
- 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…
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English…
- 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…
- I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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