In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: sexuality america american-values
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: survival
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: law-school
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: advice
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: logic
His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: jurisprudence
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.
Robert A. HeinleinNo matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: religion psychology
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Robert A. HeinleinOh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: psychology
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