Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Comrades, I beg you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. 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 good for him.

Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am.

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents—a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?

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

Do you speak English? Certainly. And I understand American.

to the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young!

Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;

When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training

There is no safety this side of the grave.

Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.

Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love.

Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

No, I hadn't made any decision; my mouth was leading its own life.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes.

Privacy is as necessary as company; you can drive a man crazy by depriving him of either.

Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.

stupid races don't build spaceships!)

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce—render emotional-his audience, each time.