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
travel space far-away
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.
lines pay firsts
Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.
thinking humanity doe
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.
stupid results malice
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
may lions easier
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
political politics strategy
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
comeback insult accidents
Never insult anyone by accident.
exercise political violence
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
gentleman rowing
Gentlemen, let's go row!
smart stupid home
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.
mature masters equal
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
gun self law
...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.
growing-up thinking cynical
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
obscurity incompetence refuge
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.