Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
