Double Star Quotes

“Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay—and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Criminy! Do you mean to tell me that the top man in the Empire would fold up and quit, just like that? Because somebody behind the scenes ordered him to?” “I’m afraid that is just what I do think.”  I shook my head. “Politics is a dirty game!”  “No,” Clifton answered insistently. “There is no such thing as a dirty game. But you sometimes run into dirty players.”  “I don’t see the difference.”  “There is a world of difference.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Conceited indeed! Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation; when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among the peasants. As for his sartorial inelegance, a man who is in uniform nine-tenths of the time and is more used to deep space than to civilization can hardly be expected to know how to dress properly.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“His profession makes him feel like boss of a creation; when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among the peasants. As for his sartorial inelegance, a man who is in uniform nine-tenths of the time and is more used to deep space than to civilization can hardly be expected to know how to dress properly.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job."

"If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“a man can get a reputation as a sparkling conversationalist simply by letting the other man do all the talking.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Can Penny come in?”  “Oh, sure! But you can tell her that she is wasting her time; the answer is still ‘No.’ ”  So I changed my mind. Confound it, why should an argument seem so much more logical when underlined with a whiff of Jungle Lust?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“I didn’t like Martians. I did not fancy having a thing that looks like a tree trunk topped off by a sun helmet claiming the privileges of a man. I did not like the way they grew pseudo limbs; it reminded me of snakes crawling out of their holes. I did not like the fact that they could look all directions at once without turning their heads—if they had had heads, which of course they don’t. And I could not stand their smell!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Пацифизм – хитроумная доктрина, с помощью которой человек пользуется всеми благами, дарованными ему определённой социальной группой, и не желает платить за это, причём свою нечестность выдаёт за добродетель, требующую увенчания его нимбом святого.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Раба нельзя освободить, если только он не добьется освобождения сам. Нельзя и свободного человека сделать рабом; его можно только убить!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Мой отец, достойнейший человек, умирая, взял с меня слово никогда не делать трех вещей: не мешать виски с чем-либо кроме воды, всегда игнорировать анонимные письма и, наконец, никогда не иметь дела с человеком, который отказывается назвать свое имя”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Я считаю, что лучше поголодать, чем соглашаться на нищенскую плату”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“MR. COMMISSIONER BOOTHROYD was a Humanity Party appointee, of course, as were all of his staff except for civil service technical employees. But Dak had told me that it was at least sixty-forty that Boothroyd had not had a finger in the plot; Dak considered him honest but stupid. For that matter, neither Dak nor Rog Clifton believed that Supreme Minister Quiroga was in it; they attributed the thing to the clandestine terrorist group inside the Humanity Party who called themselves the “Actionists”—and they attributed them to some highly respectable big-money boys who stood to profit heavily.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“am inhibited in expressing myself by the presence of a lady; therefore I cannot adequately discuss your ancestry, personal habits, morals, and destination.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Yo descargo a mis ministros de muchos de esos aburridos trabajos de colocar primeras piedras y asistir a los desfiles, ya sabe.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Un hombre puede adquirir una brillante reputación como conversador dejando, simplemente, que su interlocutor lleve el peso de la conversación”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

“Иногда вы можете ошибиться, но человек, который не имеет собственной точки зрения, ошибается постоянно.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star