No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — 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
