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61 " But, whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket! "
― Robert A. Heinlein , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
62 " Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love. "
63 " conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children—the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere "
64 " 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, tovarisschee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them ‘for their own good’ – not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it. Listening "
65 " Tanstaafl. "
66 " There is no such thing as a free lunch. "
67 " when you don’t know what a man is getting at, let your counter-question shift the subject to something you do want to talk about. Then, no matter what he answers, make your point and call on someone else. Logic does not enter into it—just tactics. "
68 " Having been born to wealth, stealing doesn’t fret me as much as it does him. "
69 " Manuel, on some subjects I don’t trust even myself. Limiting the freedom of news ‘just a little bit’ is in the same category with the classic example ‘a little bit pregnant.’ We are not yet free nor will we be as long as anyone—even our ally Mike—controls our news. Someday I hope to own a newspaper independent of any source or channel. I would happily set print by hand, like Benjamin Franklin. "
70 " Prof’s purpose was to short him out – but sometimes Prof was too subtle; some people talk better if they breathe vacuum. "
71 " That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren’t bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves. "
72 " sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive "
73 " the unkindest thing you can do for a hungry man is to give him food. "
74 " The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; "
75 " A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. "
76 " A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers. "
77 " Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow. "
78 " Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn’t forbidden. "
79 " Girls are interesting, Mike; they can reach conclusions with even less data than you can. "
80 " no better way to improve breed. Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. "