Between Planets Quotes

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“Pay it forward.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“Any government that gets to be too big and too successful gets to be a nuisance. The Federation got that way—it started out decently enough—and now it has to be trimmed down to size. So that the citizens can enjoy some ‘looseness’.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“Any government that gets to be too big and too successful gets to be a nuisance.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“What sort of world would you like it to be?" "Uh? Well, I don't know." Don pondered. "I guess I'm not what you call 'politically minded.' I don't much care how they run it—except, well, there ought to be a sort of looseness about it. You know—a man ought to be able to do what he wants to, if he can, and not be pushed around.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“Chief, perhaps it would be clearest to say that the fasarta modulates the garbab in such a phase relationship that the thrimaleen is forced to bast—or, to put it another way, somebody loosed mice in the washroom. Seriously, there is no popular way to explain it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“He was used to dragon artifacts; the two technologies, human and dragon, had interpenetrated sufficiently that a human, especially one living on Venus, found nothing odd in joints that were wrung instead of welded or bolted, nothing unusual in interlocking ovoids where a man would use screws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“Even Malath da Thon was there, sitting up in his cell with the aid of his power-driven corset and with the colors of emotion rippling gently across his frail body.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“The group on Mars did not have the giant facilities available on Earth—the mastodonic cybernetic machines, the unlimited sources of atomic power, the superpowerful particle accelerators, the enormous laboratories—but they did have freedom.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“He thought again of his school, wondered where his roommate was. Had he joined up—on the other side? He hoped not . . . yet knew in his heart that Jack had. You did what you had to do, judging it from where you were. Jack wasn't his enemy, couldn't be. Good old Jack! He hoped strongly that the wild chances of war would never bring them face to face.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“A terrestrial on Venus may not believe in the Divine Egg and all that that implies; he finds it more profitable—and much safer—to speak of it with respect.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“I am enriched by the debt you have placed upon me.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“we have fought—and fought unsuccessfully, I should add—against the historical imperative of the last two centuries, the withering away of individual freedom under larger and even more pervasive organizations, both governmental and quasi-governmental.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“he acquired considerable talent at the most common of soldiers' pastimes, griping about the war, the weather, the food, the mud, the stupidities of high command. The old soldier can substitute for recreation, or even for rest or food, this ancient, conventional, and harmless form of literary art.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets