The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty… — 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
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic… — 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
Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. — 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
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him… — 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
