Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a… — 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
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Peace” is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him… — 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
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the… — 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
