Robert Anson Heinlein citáty page 8

„Ženy a mačky si vždy budú robiť, čo sa im zachce. A mužom a psom ostáva iba upokojiť sa a zvyknúť si na to.“

„Nikdy sa nesnažte prekabátiť mačku.“

„Neznehodnocujte svoje deti tým, že im uľahčíte život.“

„Nikdy sa nepokúšajte naučiť prasa spievať; strácate tým čas a prasa to otravuje.“

„Puritán je človek, ktorý si myslí, že jeho vlastné pravidlá slušnosti sú prirodzené zákony.“

„Láska je zdravie, žiarlivosť je choroba. Zamieňame si jedno a druhé, alebo si myslíme že čím väčšia láska, tým väčšia žiarlivosť – v skutočnosti, sú skoro nezlučiteľné. Jedna z nich skoro nenecháva priestor pre druhú.“

Robert Anson Heinlein citáty a výroky

„Nič nie je zadarmo.“

„Šťastie spočíva v dostatočnom množstve spánku. Len v tom, v ničom inom.“

„Môžeš mať mier alebo môžeš mať slobodu. Ale nerátaj s tým, že budeš mať oba naraz.“

„Niet horšej tyranie ako prinútiť človeka zaplatiť za niečo, čo nechce, len preto, že si myslíte, že by to bolo pre neho dobré.“

„Pripisovali ste darebáctvu podmienky, ktoré jednoducho vyplývajú z hlúposti.“

„Hriech spočíva len v tom, že zbytočne ubližujeme iným ľuďom. Všetky ostatné "hriechy" sú vymyslené nezmysly. Ubližovanie sebe samému nie je hriech - len hlúposť.“

“Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.”

Robert Anson Heinlein: Citáty v angličtine

“I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land

“If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 3, p. 27
Zdroj: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Starship Troopers

Zdroj: Starship Troopers

“His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

“Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.”

“A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers (1959)

“Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Starship Troopers

Zdroj: Starship Troopers

“Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.”

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”

“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday

“A motion to adjourn is always in order.”

“All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”

“Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday

“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Zdroj: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Starship Troopers

Zdroj: Starship Troopers

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'… and the other twenty percent isn't very important.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Well, I suppose it did.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Zdroj: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“A Paradox May Be Paradoctored.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers