Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live… — 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
