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“L'homme qui excuse un péché parce qu'il bénéficie des résultats de ce péché est coupable au même titre que celui qui le commet.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

“Il est plus facile de soulever mille hommes en s'adressant à leurs préjugés que d'en convaincre un seul à l'aide de la logique.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

“Je commençai à entrevoir que la base de toute tyrannie n'est pas tant la force que le secret, la dissimulation, la censure. Lorsqu'un gouvernement — ou une Église — dit à ses sujets : « Il ne faut pas lire ceci, il ne faut pas voir cela, il est interdit de savoir telle chose », il en résulte inévitablement une tyrannie, quels qu'aient été les mobiles primitifs. Il faut bien peu de force pour contrôler un homme dont l'esprit est ainsi déformé. En revanche, nulle violence ne peut venir à bout d'un esprit libre, ni la torture, ni les bombes à fission, rien… on ne peut pas soumettre un homme libre. On ne peut que le tuer.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

“Si la parole d'un homme n'est pas une garantie suffisante, sa signature ne vaudra pas davantage”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

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“Les femmes et les chats ne feront que ce qui leur plaît, et les hommes et les chiens doivent se détendre et s'habituer à cette idée..”

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Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais

“Protoplasm is protean; any simple protoplasm can become any complex form of life under mutation and selection.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon

Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 13, “No more privacy than a guppy in an aquarium”, p. 126

“Man needs freedom, but few men are so strong as to be happy with complete freedom. A man needs to be part of a group, with accepted and respected relationships. Some men join foreign legions for adventure; still more swear on a bit of paper in order to acquire a framework of duties and obligations, customs and taboos, a time to work and a time to loaf, a comrade to dispute with and a sergeant to hate—in short, to belong.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 7, “The Detour” (p. 83)

“As for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXVIII : “—under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid—”, p. 371

“Every technology goes through three stages: first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget; second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original and achieving thereby somewhat satisfactory performance through extremely complex compromise; third, a final stage of smooth simplicity and efficient performance based on correct understanding of natural laws and proper design therefrom.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Rolling Stones

Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (pp. 52-53)

“I glanced at the ring on my finger.
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever … I know where I came from — but where did all you zombies come from?”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

“We don’t have to be convincing—not in the sense of getting converts. Real converts might prove to be a nuisance. We just have to be convincing enough to look like a legitimate religion to our overlords. And that doesn’t have to be very convincing. All religions look equally silly from the outside.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 6 (p. 70)

“But as grandpop always said, there are just three ways to get ahead; sweat and genius, getting born into the right family, or marrying into it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 8, “Three Ways to Get Ahead” (p. 82)

“There is no subject inappropriate for scientific research. Johann, we’ve let you fellows have a monopoly of such matters for too long. The most serious questions in the world have been left to faith or speculation. It is time for scientists to cope with them, or admit that science is no more than pebble counting.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon

Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 11, “—then a man is something more than his genes!”, p. 111

“I don’t think Father Hugo is any more mistaken than the most learned theologian and he might be closer to the truth. Jacob, I don’t think anyone knows Who’s in charge.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 26, p. 459

“Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 5

“Ben, the ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with — in the face of a preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called "morals." Most of us know the code is wrong; almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the code rides us, dead and stinking, an albatross around the neck.
You, too, Ben. You fancy yourself a free soul — and break that evil code. But faced with a problem in sexual ethics new to you, you tested it against that same Judeo-Christian code… so automatically your stomach did flip-flops… and you think that proves you're right and they're wrong. Faugh! I'd as lief use trial by ordeal.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw"
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

“I guess I don’t understand women.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones

“That’s an understatement.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 211)

“A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 9, p. 108
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“I’m not going to give up my gun. Dad wouldn’t want me to. I’m sure of that. Anyhow, I’m licensed and I don’t have to. I’m a qualified marksman, I’ve passed the psycho tests, and I’ve taken the oath; I’m as much entitled to wear a gun as he is.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Red Planet

Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 55

“A military hierarchy automatically places a premium on conservative behavior and dull conformance with precedent; it tends to penalize original and imaginative thinking.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Space Cadet

Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 9 “Long Haul”, p. 101

““I wish Doc Pickering was here.”
“Yeah, and if fish had feet, they’d be mice.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Space Cadet

Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 14 “The Natives are Friendly...”, p. 160

“People have a funny habit of taking as ‘natural’ whatever they are used to—but there hasn’t been any ‘natural’ environment, the way they mean it, since men climbed down out of trees.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 2, “The Green-Eyed Monster” (p. 21)

“Oh Max, you large lout, you arouse the eternal maternal in me.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 17, “Charity” (p. 185)

“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”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Double Star

Double Star (1956)

“Max opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again. “No.”
“Speak louder. You used a word I don’t understand.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 9, “Chartman Jones” (p. 95)

“I missed my slipstick. Dad says that anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty — a K&E 20-inch Log-log Duplex Decitrig. Dad surprised me with it after I mastered a ten-inch polyphase. We ate potato soup that week — but Dad says you should always budget luxuries first. I knew where it was. Home on my desk.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7

“Mass psychology is not simply a summation of individual psychologies; that is a prime theorem of social psychodynamics—not just my opinion; no exception has ever been found to this theorem. It is the social mass-action rule, the mob-hysteria law, known and used by military, political, and religious leaders, by advertising men and prophets and propagandists, by rabble rousers and actors and gang leaders, for generations before it was formulated in mathematical symbols. It works.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Methuselah's Children

Methuselah’s Children (p. 535)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Any cipher can be broken, any code can be compromised. But the most exact academic knowledge of a language gives no clue to its slang, its colloquial allusions, its half statements, over statements, and inverted meanings.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 9 (p. 113)

“I think girls should be raised in the bottom of a deep, dark sack until they are old enough to know better.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 4, “Captain DeLongPre” (p. 50)

““Scheer, are you any good at counterfeiting?”
“I’ve never tried it, sir.”
“No time like the present. Every man needs an alternative profession.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 6 (p. 72)

“Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright?”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 211)

“Wherever there is power and mass to manipulate, Man can live.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Rolling Stones

Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 16, “Rock City” (p. 208)

“I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 12, p. 177

“Pioneers need good neighbors.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 14, “Land of My Own” (p. 147)

“The attack should not have happened, of course. The rice farmer sergeant had been perfectly right; the Federation could not afford to risk its own great cites to punish the villagers of Venus. He was right—from his viewpoint.
A rice farmer has one logic; the men who live by and for power have another and entirely different logic. Their lives are built on tenuous assumptions, fragile as reputation; they could not afford to ignore a challenge to their power—the Federation could not afford not to punish the insolent colonists.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 10, “While I Was Musing the Fire Burned” (p. 113)

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