Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

– I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do… and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! – Son, that’s universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

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Son

Want

…a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

Book

Men

Needs

…I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals… I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Gun

Law

Self

…more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

Jobs

Men

Strong

…revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Communication

Practice

Revolution

‘Savage’ describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Degrees

Evolution

Savages

“I’ve found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much… because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting” … “But that’s not all people laugh at.” “Isn’t it? Perhaps I don’t grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart… a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we’ll see if there isn’t a wrongness wasn’t there.” He thought. “I grok when apes learn to laugh, they’ll be people.”

Hurt

People

Real

“Peace” is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when “peace” meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Military

Peace

War

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

Athlete

Media

Thinking

A “critic” is a man who creates nothing.

Critics

Men

Unbiased

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Able

Abstract

Accepting

Accidents

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Accomplishment

Accountability

Acquaintance

Action

Add

Affair

Age

Agony

Airplane

Alcohol

Ambition

America

Analogies

Anger

Animal

Anniversary

Answers

Anything Worth Doing

Aphrodisiac

Apologizing

Application

Appreciation

Arguing

Argument

Arms

Art

Articles

Artillery

Artist

Ashamed

Asking

Assault Weapons

Assuming

Assumption

Astrology

Astronaut

Astronomy

Atheism

Atheist

Athlete

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Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

– I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do… and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! – Son, that’s universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

…a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

…I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals… I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

…more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

…revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

‘Savage’ describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

A “critic” is a man who creates nothing.

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