All Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
- Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. Anyone
- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about… Best
- To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Blunder
- It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Belief
- I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. Article
- The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Accounts
- For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. Atheism
- Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. Doe
- Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves… Agnosticism
- There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the… Acute
- One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could… Assembling
- Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There… Been
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I… Any
- Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere! Damnit
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Another Person
- You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. Attributed
- There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be… Communism
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… Able
- No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart. Age
- A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is… Bad