Robert A. Heinlein citations célèbres
Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais
“Don’t kid yourself, knowing too much is a capital offense. In politics it always has been.”
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 31 (p. 327)
Contexte: Don’t kid yourself, Friday; knowing too much is a capital offense. In politics it always has been.
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 23 (pp. 240-241)
Contexte: “So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.“ Elementary. Go on. “Well…high taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way—even though there are always endless attempts to wish it away by legislation.”
“Good stories are rarely true.”
Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 3, "Through the Tunnel"
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (p. 267)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (p. 261)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
Waldo (p. 186)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
Waldo (p. 134)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
“We must make the fee contingent on results.”
“Did you ever hear of anyone in his right mind dealing with a wizard on any other basis?”
Magic, Inc. (p. 21)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
“The concept of change baffled them.”
Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 14 (p. 196)
“No government has yet been able to repeal natural laws, though they keep trying.”
Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 35)
