“Democrats were being rounded up, sentenced by drumhead courts-martial (provost’s tribunals, they were called) and executed on the spot—laser, gunfire, some hangings.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all… — 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
