My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. — 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
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common". — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were… — 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 am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. — 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
