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
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. — 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
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
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
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — 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'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
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
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
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a… — 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
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
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. — 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
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — 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
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains… — 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
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
People usually believe anything that they are told early and often. — 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
