Robert A. Heinlein Quote Explained: You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

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Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

- Robert A. Heinlein

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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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Brain
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Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

- Robert A. Heinlein

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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Society

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The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Science fiction author

· USA

Love

You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe… get your act together.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing.

You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

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