“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 future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Let's skip [Mobile Infantry] tradition for a moment. Can you think of anything sillier than being fired out of a spaceship with… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worry about it. Live each day as if you were to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all… — 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
