Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.
Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.
The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.
The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't
