"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Robert Heinlein
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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Robert Heinlein
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
Robert Heinlein
"The answer to any question starting, "Why don't they-" is almost always, "Money."
Robert Heinlein
The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on government contract.
Robert Heinlein
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
Time Enough for Love
Robert Heinlein
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Robert Heinlein
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
Robert Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert Heinlein
Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
Robert Heinlein