Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Human nature
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
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Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
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Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: Please pass this so that I won't be able to so something I know I should stop. Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them for their own good
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A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
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All men are created unequal.
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By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man - man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
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Everybody lies about sex.
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
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Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly.
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All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.