Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
485 quotes
in 4987 categories
-
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of…
-
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
-
An armed man need not fight.
-
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
-
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he…
-
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
-
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
-
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
-
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
-
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny
-
With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
-
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
-
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
-
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
-
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
-
Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
-
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
-
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and…
-
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run…
-
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Browse Robert A. Heinlein Quotes by Category