Robert Anson Heinlein was 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.
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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. Robert A. Heinlein
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be.
War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force. Robert A. Heinlein
War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force.
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues - which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out. Robert A. Heinlein
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues - which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. Robert A. Heinlein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation ... Robert A. Heinlein
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation ...
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live. Robert A. Heinlein
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together. Robert A. Heinlein
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. Robert A. Heinlein
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.