As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.
Robert A. HeinleinWere you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?
Robert A. HeinleinReason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Robert A. HeinleinDemocracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.
Robert A. HeinleinStichwörter: democracy political-philosophy dry-humor
I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either.
Stichwörter: stranger-in-a-strange-land
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
Robert A. HeinleinStichwörter: beauty witty nursing breastfeeding
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
Robert A. HeinleinStichwörter: god religion crime priests stranger-in-a-strange-land
Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history... No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple.
Robert A. HeinleinStichwörter: science inspirational politics
Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.
Robert A. HeinleinBen, why should anybody want that much power?"
"Why does a moth fly toward light?
Stichwörter: power
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