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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Peace” is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. Robert A. Heinlein
Peace” is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties.
It’s never a soldier’s business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. Robert A. Heinlein
It’s never a soldier’s business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals.
The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Robert A. Heinlein
The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do.
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.
Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later. Robert A. Heinlein
Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.
The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value. Robert A. Heinlein
The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.
All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Robert A. Heinlein
All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them.
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.
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.
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.
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. Robert A. Heinlein
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.