Quote

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Robert A. Heinlein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Little
Categories
Pregnant
Classic
News
Example
Bits
Freedom
Limiting
Littles
Category

More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Image
Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive they wind up as meat for leopards.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
The stars incline, but do not impel.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Each generation thinks it invented sex each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
You can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
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
Image
Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Men are not potatoes!
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you if you don't bet you can't win.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
Robert A. Heinlein
Image
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein