Robert Anson Heinlein Zitate

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Time Enough For Love, 1973

Time Enough For Love, 1973

Time Enough For Love, 1973

Time Enough For Love, 1973

Time Enough For Love, 1973

Quelle: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 188)

The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

Quelle: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 15, “Probably a blind alley—”, p. 146

Quelle: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 4, “The Blood of Pioneers”, p. 34

Time Enough for Love (1973)

Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 12

Quelle: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 132

Methuselah's Children (1958)

“She sounds like a sensible person.”
Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 11

Quelle: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 10 (p. 61)

Quelle: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 130

Quelle: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 8, “Foxes Have Holes, and Birds of the Air Have Nests—” (p. 91)

Quelle: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 76

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXI : “—the first ghosts ever to search for an obstetrician.”, p. 321

The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Kontext: Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Quelle: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 196)

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXVI : The Keys to the City, p. 249

Quelle: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 1, p. 24

Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 6

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XIV : “Quit worrying and enjoy the ride.”, p. 128

Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8

Quelle: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 49

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

Friday (1983)

Quelle: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 9 (p. 108)

Remark after receiving a $70 US check for his first published story.
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

Quelle: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 9)

Assignment in Eternity (1953)