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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

“Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive—and unpredictable.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 26, p. 452

“There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that’s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that’s science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy’s Law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster’s Factor: that’s engineering.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 508

“Horses can manufacture more horses and that is one trick that tractors have never learned.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 187)

“Chief, perhaps it would be clearest to say that the fasarta modulates the garbab in such a phase relationship that the thrimaleen is forced to bast—or, to put it another way, somebody loosed mice in the washroom. Seriously, there is no popular way to explain it. If you were willing to spend five hard years with me, working up through the math, I could probably bring you to the same level of ignorance and confusion that I enjoy.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 176)

“She grabbed him by both ears and kissed him quickly, then ran away.
Don stared after her, rubbing his mouth. Girls, he reflected, were much odder than dragons. Probably another race entirely.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 18, “Little David” (p. 182)

““Let me get this,” the Old Man said. “You are promising the human race that, if we will just surrender, you will take care of us and make us happy. Right?”
“Exactly!”
The Old Man studied this while looking past my shoulders. He spat on the floor. “You know,” he said slowly, “me and my kind, we have often been offered that bargain. It never worked out worth a damn.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Puppet Masters

Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 10 (p. 58)

“Just now I’m writing a series of oh-so-respectful articles about the private life of the Prophet and his acolytes and attending priests, how many servants they have, how much it costs to run the Palace, all about the fancy ceremonies and rituals, and such junk. All of it perfectly true, of course, and told with unctuous approval. But I lay it on a shade too thick. The emphasis is on the jewels and the solid gold trappings and how much it all costs, and I keep telling the yokels what a privilege it is for them to be permitted to pay for such frippery and how flattered they should feel that God’s representative on earth lets them take care of him.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 426)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing —and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

“I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 401)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“They made a good team. As a matter of fact their talents were not too far apart; the artist is two-thirds artisan and the artisan has essentially the same creative urge as the artist.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 68)

“I’m going to put it to you straight. Never mind about being chief engineer of a planet; these days even a farmer needs the best education he can get. Without it he’s just a country bumpkin, a stumbling peasant, poking seeds into the ground and hoping a miracle will make them grow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 20, “Home” (pp. 218-219)

“You put me in mind of a case I ran into in the American West. A respected citizen shot a professional gunthrower in the back. When asked why he didn’t give the other chap a chance to draw, the survivor said, ‘Well, he’s dead and I’m alive and that’s how I wanted it to be.’ Jamie, if you use sportsmanship on a known scamp, you put yourself at a terrible disadvantage.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Red Planet

Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 10, “We’re Boxed In!”, p. 148

“Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can’t have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don’t rate it.”

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Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5

“Let me add,” he went on, “that since I handle secret and most-secret despatches, I know things that I don’t know, if I make my meaning clear.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXIX : “—we place no faith in princes.”, p. 286

“I expect this to be my last venture in this field; 'tain't worth the grief”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Grumbles from the Grave

Response to efforts to censor his first novel, Red Planet
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

“The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10

“If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“I wish they wouldn’t hold mornings so early.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XVI : “—a maiden knight, eager to break a lance—”, p. 138

“As I once heard Andrew—that’s my disappearing brother—say: ‘Life consist in accommodating oneself to the Universe.’ Although the rest of our family has never taken that view. We believe if forcing the Universe to accommodate itself to us. It’s all a question of which one is to be master.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 486

“Dr. Russell, I concede that Washington has an atrocious climate. But you will have air-conditioned offices.”
“With clocks, no doubt. And secretaries. And soundproofing.”
“Anything you want, doctor.”
“The point is, Mr. Secretary, I don’t want them. This household has no clocks. Nor calendars. Once I had a large income and a larger ulcer; I now have a small income and no ulcer. I stay here.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“But the job needs you.”
“The need is not mutual.”
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 1

“Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 400

“I’m not raising any kids to be radioactive dust.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 198)

“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that “news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different—in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XVI : “—a maiden knight, eager to break a lance—”, p. 134

“You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 8

“Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.”

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The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

“The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.”

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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. 377

“How can you argue with a woman who won't?”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 19, p. 235
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“It’s impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he’s eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he’ll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 25, p. 427

“But what you’re talking about means giving up all that—just the noble primitive, simple and self-sufficient. He’s going to chop down a tree—who sold him the ax? He wants to shoot a deer—who made his gun?…There never was and there never could be a noble simple creature such as you described. He’d be an ignorant savage, with dirt on his skin and lice in his hair. He would work sixteen hours a day to stay alive at all. He’d sleep in a filthy hut on a dirt floor. And his point of view and his mental processes would be just two jumps above an animal.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon

Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 6, “We don’t speak the same lingo”, pp. 73-74

“For three hundred years the race had glazed windows. Then they shut themselves up in little air-conditioned boxes and stared at silly television pictures instead. One might as well be on Luna.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 16, “Line Up” (p. 161)

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