Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Equality

5 quotes

  1. The death rate is the same for us as for anybody...one person, one death, sooner or later.

  2. Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

  3. A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

  4. All men are created unequal.

  5. Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, 'equality' is a disaster.

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