Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sound...

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it...

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a buste...

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything fro...

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other time...

I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none...

Oh, "Tanstaafl." Means "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." And isn't,' I added, pointing to...

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phr...

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...

For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... ...

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He...

I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, y...

Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, hel...

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to ...

there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason ...

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I ...

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shapin...

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death...

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the...

Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for ...

. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. ...

The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids...

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...

Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and large...

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ign...

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and th...

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through it...

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan y...

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experi...

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and withou...

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this m...

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowh...

It's a long story. Want a refill?""No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?""Right here.""Well...

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never...

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ...

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. ...

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' a...

He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill o...

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of na...

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more sui...

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something th...

It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull...

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) a...

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is foo...

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We wer...

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE ...

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is...