English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: feelings english-language
Do you know your Bible?'
'Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.
Tag: advice the-bible emergencies studies
I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman--which means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: old-fashioned gentleman-bastard sob
Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days--since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other--with, of course, a day off each year for sheer solipsist debauchery.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: paradoxes solipsism indecision the-universe hypotheses creation-of-the-universe
Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.
Robert A. HeinleinAny government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: government
I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: life god uncertainty
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: freedom censorship news
Customs, morals—is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe—and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don’t you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes—make him feel shame if he doesn’t have it.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: moral custom taboo conformist
For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on my mind was devastating. Sometimes I would glance over my shoulder to see who was watching me, frightened in spite of myself. I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy...censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's 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. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked, contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything---you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: inspirational freedom
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