A Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Being Right Socially Soon Too Unacceptable

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Robert A. Heinlein
American - Writer
July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

According to the world standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect or socially unacceptable, but following the prophet is always right.

Carol F. McConkie

Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

Heather Brooke

Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.

Nikolas Schreck

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

Millard Fuller

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

Mona Eltahawy

I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.

Candy Darling

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

Ezra Klein

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

Tristram Stuart

I've heard from too many business leaders that they are having to look outside of Virginia to find workers with the right skills sets. That's unacceptable.

Ralph Northam

Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.

Bob Cousy

If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.

Rudolf Steiner

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Gregory Nunn

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

Wong Kar-wai

I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was all about. I was just hanging out on the street. I was not humble. I was not a nice person, doing things that were socially unacceptable.

Bob Beamon

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Germaine Greer

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

George W. Romney

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