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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress QUOTES

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress QUOTES

1 " Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

2 " Women talk when they want to. Or don't. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

3 " Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

4 " I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

5 " I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

6 " There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

7 " Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond? While ego crouches inside, aware but never willing to risk it? No, can’t be that; Mike was unafraid – as gaily unafraid as Prof. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

8 " I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. 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 , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

9 " Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

10 " A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

11 " Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

12 " Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

13 " From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

14 " One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

15 " Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

16 " Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

17 " In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

18 " As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

19 " Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

20 " Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress