A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight,… — 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
