Quotes from Sixth Column — Robert A. Heinlein
1907–1988 United States
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A man has to grow up in a language to be able to understand it scrambled.
Sixth Column (1949)
Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome.
Sixth Column (1949)
“Scheer, are you any good at counterfeiting?”
“I’ve never tried it, sir.”
“No time like the present. Every man needs an alternative profession.”
Sixth Column (1949)
They made a good team. As a matter of fact their talents were not too far apart; the artist is two-thirds artisan and the artisan has essentially the same creative urge as the artist.
Sixth Column (1949)
Sex is rearing its interesting head.
Sixth Column (1949)
“What sort of a remark?”
“Just priestly mumbo-jumbo. Impressive and no real meaning. Can you do it?”
“I think so—I used to sell magazine subscriptions.”
Sixth Column (1949)
These savages and their false gods! I grow weary of them. Yet they are necessary; the priests and the gods of slaves always fight on the side of the Masters. It is a rule of nature.
Sixth Column (1949)
Any cipher can be broken, any code can be compromised. But the most exact academic knowledge of a language gives no clue to its slang, its colloquial allusions, its half statements, over statements, and inverted meanings.
Sixth Column (1949)
“Look, Chief—is it really necessary to kill everybody here? I don’t relish it.”
“Don’t get chicken, son,” admonished Ardmore with an edge in his voice. “This is war—and war is no joke. There is no such thing as a humane war.”
Sixth Column (1949)