“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
I love Robert Heinlein. In a way he along with a few other writers raised me to think for myself through a stormy adolescence. I learned it was ok to be myself no matter who i was and it was ok to love always. In his books, he also introduced me to both the idea of sentient computers and libertarian ideals, which I still lean towards many years later.
A few more Heinlein quotes just because :
““Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.”
“Secrecy 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.”
“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
Recommended books by Robert Heinlein:
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Time Enough For Love
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Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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Number of the Beast
Blessings, G
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Ankh Appearing by G A Rosenberg
Hall of Being by G A Rosenberg
