ROBERT HEINLEIN. 1907-1988 Author “Dune”
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF HUMAN STUPIDITY.
THE UNITED STATES has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
THERE ARE NO DANGEROUS WEAPONS; THERE ARE ONLY DANGEROUS MEN.
WOMEN AND CATS WILL DO AS THEY PLEASE, AND MEN AND DOGS SHOULD RELAX AND GET USED TO THE IDEA.
VIOLENCE, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives.
DEMOCRACY IS FOUR WOLVES AND A SHEEP VOTING ON DINNER.
A GENERATION WHICH IGNORES HISTORY HAS NO PAST — AND NO FUTURE.
BELIEF GETS IN THE WAY OF LEARNING.
I THINK perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
NO MATTER WHERE OR WHAT, THERE ARE MAKERS, TAKERS & FAKERS.
WHENEVER WOMEN HAVE INSISTED ON ABSOLUTE EQUALITY WITH MEN, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. for women, “equality” is a disaster.
IN THE ABSENCE of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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.
PEOPLE USUALLY BELIVE ANYTHING THAT THEY ARE TOLD EARLY AND OFTEN.
YOU CAN have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
SECRECY IS THE BEGINNING OF TYRANNY.
EACH man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
TAXES ARE NOT LEVIED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TAXED.
MAY you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
SATCHEL PAIGE 1906-1982. Baseball Pitcher.
HOW OLD WOULD YOU BE IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW HOW OLD YOU ARE?
DON’T LOOK BACK. SOMETHING MIGHT BE GAINING ON YOU.
SMILE well and often, it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to.
WORK like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
NEVER let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
WHAT’S SCARY in life is not what people know (or don’t know), but what they know that ain’t so.
NOT TO BE cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
DREAMING OF A BETTER WORLD.