Sacrilegious Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“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

“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

“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

“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

— Robert A. Heinlein