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
thinking ideas fiction
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
voting historical records
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
teaching leader following-your-own-path
It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.
country men years
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute not common law. Neither individuals not corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
liberty selfishness libertarian
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
blood liberty unalienable-rights
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
tired decision hungry
Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
atheist government church
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
sad jealousy learning
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
country thinking years
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
life-is-short cute-friendship asking
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price
articles clothings persons
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
friendship love-is horny
Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.
years genius fifteen
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius...