Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may… — 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
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may… — 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
Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a… — 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 Image
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 Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
