Frases de Robert A. Heinlein

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“Hein? Ah, você tem que cobrar deles, Jubal. Os otários não prestam atenção se for de graça.”

“Progresso é feito por homens preguiçosos que procuram modos mais fáceis para fazer as coisas.”

“Ah, sim, eu groko otários, Jubal. No começo eu pregava de graça. Não funcionou. Nós, humanos, precisamos progredir consideravelmente antes de receber um presente de graça, e valorizá-lo.”

“Eu sabia disso, queria saber se você também.”

“Um puritano é uma pessoa que pensa que suas próprias noções de propriedade são leis naturais.”

“Deus dividiu-se numa miríade de partes para que pudesse ter amigos.”

“O amor é a condição para que a felicidade de outra pessoa seja essencial para a sua.”

“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”

“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”

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

“Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”

“God created men to test the souls of women.”

“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for… but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”

“I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”

“Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”

“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”

“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”

“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.”

“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”

“Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”

“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”

“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”

“I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.”

“To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”

“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”

“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”

“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”

“Sense is never common.”

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”

“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.”

“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”