English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
Robert A. HeinleinIt's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
Robert A. HeinleinUnarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
Robert A. HeinleinSince survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
Robert A. HeinleinSecrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Robert A. Heinlein