Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land

Quotes

• “No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take ev...”
• “Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that ...”
• “But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’...”
• “But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wi...”
• “A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
• “Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.”
• “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
• “If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”
• “Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”