People usually believe anything that they are told early and often. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — 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
Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed… — 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
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially… — 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
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you. — 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… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply 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
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