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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
There will always be survivors.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Man is a rationalizing animal, not a rational animal.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little -- do what you can.
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
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 good for him.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
An armed society is a polite society.
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.