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A man who learns to read and write is half-way to freedom by that one fact.
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)
Under the Communist system it is never possible to get the facts. The truth is dead—murdered—and the official version, the pravda, is that which advances the world Communist revolution.
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)
That’s all there is, really, to the scientific method: to be able to distinguish fact from non-facts.
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)
The answer to any question starting, “Why don’t they—” is almost always, “Money.”
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)
I simply know that when the government controls every word that is printed, every idea that is taught in school, history is no longer a record of the past but is a changeable thing, whatever is convenient to the government.
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)
To that extent, I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)