Should Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

— Robert A. Heinlein

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

— Robert A. Heinlein

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man…

— Robert A. Heinlein

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

— Robert A. Heinlein