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Own Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
- Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
- My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
- A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
- 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'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love…
- 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…
- Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
- An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can…
- Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly)…
- Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
- Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.…
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I…
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- 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…
- Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to…
- 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…
- 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…
- My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
- 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…
- Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being…
- Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.
- In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
- Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov