Quotes from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert Heinlein
Private where private belongs, public where it's needed, and an admission that circumstances alter cases. Nothing doctrinaire.
- p83
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
- p 84
Our first purpose was not to be noticed.
- p117
We were prosperous because we never bought anything farm could produce.
- p 122
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.
- p 147
Where do you start explaining when a man's words show there isn't anything he understands about subject, instead is loaded with preconceptions that don't fit facts and doesn't even know he has?
- p163
... men without women don't care whether they stay alive or not.
- p164
... government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master ... distrust the obvious, suspect the traditional ... whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!
- p190-1
Line marriage is the strongest possible device for conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children--the two basic societal functions for marriage anywhere--in an environment in which there is no security, neither for capital nor for children, other than that devised by individuals.
- p 261
When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
- p 290
Sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive ...
- p 303
If possible, leave room for your enemy to become your friend. -
- p 334
[note: page numbers from the Orb Edition, Tom Doherty Associates]
Notes From Windward - Index - Vol. 71
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