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«Свободные люди», 1947
мысль частично перефразирована в романе «Двойная звезда» (гл. 10)
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There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
«Линия жизни»
Из произведений
There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
«Линия жизни»
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сон
Источник: Пасынки Вселенной (сборник)
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From the moment his first story appeared, an awed science fiction world accepted him as the best science fiction writer in existence, and he held that post throughout his life.
Айзек Азимов
Источник: Heinlein, pulp & greatness, Discover Magazine, en, 2012-08-09, http://www.webcitation.org/6A2mGUFSi, 2012-08-20 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2009/04/heinlein-pulp-greatness/,
еда
Источник: Неприятная профессия Джонатана Хога. Иноздесь (сборник)
еда
Источник: Неприятная профессия Джонатана Хога. Иноздесь (сборник)
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„Женщины — как кошки, — они всегда делают, что хотят. И мужчине с этим не сладить.“
«Кот, проходящий сквозь стены»
Из произведений
„Оставлять мыслящих людей в рядах экипажа – означает сеять ересь…“
ересь
Источник: Пасынки Вселенной (сборник)
„Умирать нетрудно. Даже маленький котёнок на это способен.“
«Кот, проходящий сквозь стены»
Из произведений
„Я считаю величайшим писателем-фантастом эпохи Кэмпбелла Роберта Э. Хайнлайна…“
I mentioned that greatest of Campbell-era sf writers <is> Robert A. Heinlein...
Фредерик Пол
Источник: Working with Robert A. Heinlein, Фредерик Пол, en, 2012-08-09, http://www.webcitation.org/6A2mFlxTH, 2012-08-20 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/working-with-robert-a-heinlein/,
мысль
Источник: Пасынки Вселенной (сборник)
искусство
Источник: Неприятная профессия Джонатана Хога. Иноздесь (сборник)
дух
Источник: Неприятная профессия Джонатана Хога. Иноздесь (сборник)
Роберт Хайнлайн: Цитаты на английском языке
“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Контексте: Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
“This I believe with all my heart.”
This I Believe (1952)
Контексте: I believe in — I am proud to belong to — the United States. Despite shortcomings, from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.
And finally, I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown — in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability … and goodness …. of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure — will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage — and his noble essential decency.
This I believe with all my heart.
“My wife Ticky is an anarchist-individualist”
Tramp Royale (1992)
Контексте: My wife Ticky is an anarchist-individualist... When she was in the Navy during the early 'forties she showed up one morning in proper uniform but with her red hair held down by a simple navy-blue band — a hair ribbon. It was neat (Ticky is always neat) and it suited the rest of her outfit esthetically, but it was undeniably a hair ribbon and her division officer had fits.
"If you can show me," Ticky answered with simple dignity, "where it says one word in the Navy Uniform Regulations on the subject of hair ribbons, I'll take it off. Otherwise not."
See what I mean? She doesn't have the right attitude.
“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.”
This I Believe (1952)
Контексте: Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.
I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses... in the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home in the land.
“I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.”
Double Star (1956)
Контексте: I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics. I had sampled them — public libraries are a ready source of recreation for an actor short of cash — but I had found them as poor in vitamins as a mother-in-law’s kiss. Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything. I had the same contempt for the moral instruction handed to most children. Much of it is prattle and the parts they really seem to mean are dedicated to the sacred proposition that a “good” child is one who does not disturb mother’s nap and a “good” man is one who achieves a muscular bank account without getting caught. No, thanks!
“Temporal agents always notice time and date; we must.”
"—All You Zombies—" (1958)
Контексте: I was polishing a brandy snifter when the Unmarried Mother came in. I noted the time — 10: 17 P. M. zone five, or eastern time, November 7th, 1970. Temporal agents always notice time and date; we must.
The Unmarried Mother was a man twenty-five years old, no taller than I am, childish features and a touchy temper. I didn't like his looks — I never had — but he was a lad I was here to recruit, he was my boy. I gave him my best barkeep's smile.
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Контексте: I said that "Patriotism" is a way of saying "Women and children first." And that no one can force a man to feel this way. Instead he must embrace it freely. I want to tell about one such man. He wore no uniform and no one knows his name, or where he came from; all we know is what he did.
In my home town sixty years ago when I was a child, my mother and father used to take me and my brothers and sisters out to Swope Park on Sunday afternoons. It was a wonderful place for kids, with picnic grounds and lakes and a zoo. But a railroad line cut straight through it.
One Sunday afternoon a young married couple were crossing these tracks. She apparently did not watch her step, for she managed to catch her foot in the frog of a switch to a siding and could not pull it free. Her husband stopped to help her.
But try as they might they could not get her foot loose. While they were working at it, a tramp showed up, walking the ties. He joined the husband in trying to pull the young woman's foot loose. No luck —
Out of sight around the curve a train whistled. Perhaps there would have been time to run and flag it down, perhaps not. In any case both men went right ahead trying to pull her free... and the train hit them.
The wife was killed, the husband was mortally injured and died later, the tramp was killed — and testimony showed that neither man made the slightest effort to save himself.
The husband's behavior was heroic... but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him. And that's all we'll ever know about him.
This is how a man dies.
This is how a man... lives!
“Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt.”
Источник: The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Контексте: Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Контексте: I now define "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival." I won't argue with philosophers or theologians who choose to use the word "moral" to mean something else, but I do not think anyone can define "behavior that tends toward extinction" as being "moral" without stretching the word "moral" all out of shape.
“I believe in the honest craft of workmen.”
This I Believe (1952)
Контексте: I believe in the honest craft of workmen. Take a look around you. There never were enough bosses to check up on all that work. From Independence Hall to the Grand Coulee Dam, these things were built level and square by craftsmen who were honest in their bones.
Introduction to "Cliff and the Calories," in Expanded Universe, (1980), pg. 355
Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington (1961)
The Quotable Heinlein http://www.quotableheinlein.com/html/home.html
Контексте: I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
“A skillful Artist in shapes and appearances does no more than necessary to create His effect.”
Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
Контексте: Time is never a problem on the God level. Or space. Whatever needed to deceive you was provided. But no more than that. That is the conservative principle in art at the God level. While I can't do it, not being at that level, I have seen a lot of it done. A skillful Artist in shapes and appearances does no more than necessary to create His effect.
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
Источник: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 9
“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
Источник: Starship Troopers
“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
Источник: Stranger in a Strange Land
“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
Источник: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 164 (1987 Putnam edition; ISBN 9780399132674
Источник: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 15, “Probably a blind alley—”, p. 147
Контексте: Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things to kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both. It’s a good thing.
