#ate

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#even #freedom #individual #more #only

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assumes #condition #disease #essential #greater

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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

#am #because #break #everything #find

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#human #never #never underestimate #stupidity #underestimate

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#happen #later #make #our #supposed

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#because #believed #made #should #statement

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#civilized #cured #endure #even #food

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#fine #hate #i #leave #much

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#above #being #dignity #due #enough