"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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."
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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Robert A. Heinlein"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
Robert A. Heinlein"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
Robert A. Heinlein"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its 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."
Robert A. Heinlein"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
Robert A. Heinlein"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
Robert A. Heinlein"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
Robert A. Heinlein"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
Robert A. Heinlein"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
Robert A. Heinlein"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
Robert A. Heinlein"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
Robert A. Heinlein"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
Robert A. Heinlein