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Robert Anson Heinlein, né le 7 juillet 1907 à Butler dans le Missouri et mort le 8 mai 1988 à Carmel-sur-mer en Californie, est un écrivain de science-fiction américain.

Écrivain engagé, son influence sur l'imaginaire nucléaire et spatial américain a marqué l'histoire technique de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle[réf. souhaitée].

✵ 7. juillet 1907 – 8. mai 1988  •  Autres noms Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
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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

“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die… and accepts his sentence undismayed.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey…”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“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.”

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“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday

Source: Friday

“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Star Beast

Source: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 14, “Destiny? Fiddlesticks!” (p. 219)

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday

Source: Friday

“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

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“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“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.”

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“The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Expanded Universe

Source: "The Happy Days Ahead" in Expanded Universe (1980)
Contexte: I started clipping and filing by categories on trends as early as 1930 and my "youngest" file was started in 1945.
Span of time is important; the 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold

“Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Man Who Sold the Moon

Source: The Man Who Sold the Moon

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