Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
authority disaster permit
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
country baby men
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
political secrecy tyranny
Secrecy begets tyranny.
anything-worth-doing bigs bites
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
attitude sacrifice emotional
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
defining nervous english-language
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
technology engineering people
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
cat feline
There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
mistress looks problem
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
battle price-of-freedom willingness
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
fighting religion strange
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
breakfast evaluation chance
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
mistress libertarian limits
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
athlete thinking media
[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.