Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

History is never surprising after it happens.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

There is no such thing as Just a cat.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

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