Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law." "They are? Only from on top.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
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