“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. — 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
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time… — 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
