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Quotes from Double Star — Robert A. Heinlein

1907–1988 United States

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7 quotes

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

Double Star (1956)

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong — but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Double Star (1956)

Son, suppose you tend to your knitting and I tend to mine.

Double Star (1956)

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

Double Star (1956)

People don’t really want change, any change at all — and xenophobia is very deep-rooted. But we progress, as we must — if we are to go out to the stars.

Double Star (1956)

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Double Star (1956)

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

Double Star (1956)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert A. Heinlein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.