Frases de Robert Anson Heinlein

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“Puedes tener paz. O puedes tener libertad. Nunca cuentes con tener ambos a la vez.”

“La felicidad consiste en dormir lo suficiente. Solo eso, nada más.”

“Un ser humano debe ser capaz de cambiar pañales, planear invasiones, carnear cerdos, navegar barcos, diseñar edificios, escribir sonetos, contabilizar saldos, levantar paredes, tratar fracturas, dar consuelo a moribundos, recibir órdenes, dar órdenes, cooperar, actuar solo, resolver ecuaciones, analizar nuevos problemas, palear estiércol, programar computadoras, cocinar bien, luchar eficientemente, morir con gallardía. La especialización es para los insectos.”

“Yo soy libre, al margen de las normas que me rodean. Si las encuentro soportables, las soporto; si me parecen detestables, las quebranto. Soy libre porque sé que soy moralmente responsable de todo lo que hago.”

“La democracia no puede funcionar. Matemáticos, campesinos, y animales, eso es todo lo que hay. Así que la democracia, una teoría basada en la asunción de que los matemáticos y los campesinos son iguales, nunca puede funcionar. La sabiduría no es aditiva; su máximo es el del hombre más sabio del grupo.”

“No le hagas la vida difícil a tus hijos haciéndosela fácil.”

“La noción de que cuando un hombre o una compañía han sacado un beneficio del público durante un cierto número de años, el gobierno y los tribunales tienen el deber de salvaguardar esos beneficios en el futuro, incluso […] contra el beneficio del público. […] Ni los individuos ni las corporaciones tienen el menor derecho de acudir a los tribunales y exigir que el reloj de la historia sea detenido, o retrasado, en beneficio particular suyo.”

“El pecado se encuentra solamente en querer herir a otras personas innecesariamente. Todos los demás pecados son disparatados inventos. El automaltrato no es un pecado… es simplemente estúpido.”

“La teología nunca ha sido de gran ayuda, es como buscar, a medianoche y en un sótano oscuro, a un gato negro que no está ahí.”

“Los diez mandamientos están hechos para cerebros aburridos. Los primeros cinco son exclusivamente para el beneficio de los curas y sus poderes; los segundos cinco son medias verdades, ni completas ni adecuadas.”

“Isaac Asimov gana dinero a costa de su neurosis”

“Oremos por un último aterrizaje
sobre el globo que nos vio nacer.
Fijemos nuestros ojos en el cielo aborregado
y las frescas, verdes colinas de la Tierra.”

“Brindemos por la raza femenina, Pet… ¡Encuéntralas y olvídalas!”

“Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto”

“Hice un descubrimiento muy importante en el campamento Currie: la felicidad consiste en dormir suficiente.”

“Dije que "Patriotismo" es una forma de decir "Mujeres y niños primero". Y que nadie puede obligar a un hombre a sentirse así. En su lugar, debe abrazarlo libremente.”

“La violencia, la fuerza bruta, ha zanjado más asuntos en la historia de lo que lo ha hecho cualquier otro factor, y la opinión contraria es pensamiento voluntarista del peor.”

“Escuche siempre a los expertos. Le dirán lo que no puede hacerse y por qué. ¡Luego hágalo!!”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.”

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

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

“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…”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit”

“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”

“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.”

“Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!”

“Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.”