The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. — 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
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — 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
Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — 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
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
