Heinlein Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes

#1. is usually the refuge of incompetence." Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Garrett Schwanke

#2. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

Jesse Spencer

#4. The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

Rose Wilder Lane

#6. One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.

Charles C. Ryrie

#7. Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Jerry Pournelle

#9. Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Emile M. Cioran

#10. That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. Be your own work of art. Don't find yourself; invent yourself. 'Change Your Mind

Rod Judkins

#12. I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either.

Heinlein Robert A.