Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites!

nos morituri vos spernimus (we who are about to die, scorn you)

I would say that you have fallen into the commonest fallacy of all in dealing with social and economic subjects—the 'devil theory.' [...] You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. [...] You think banders are scoundrels. They are not. Nor are company officials, nor patrons, nor the governing classes back on earth. Men are constrained by necessity and build up rationalizations to account for their acts.

Because great wealth is a curse—unless you enjoy money-making for its own sake. Even then it has serious drawbacks.

our strategy must be to antagonize them into striking the first blow, the classic 'Pearl Harbor' maneuver of game theory, a great advantage in Weltpolitick.

Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth—but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.

Our problem is to manipulate the game so that our strength is utilized toward an optimax solution while inducing them to waste their superior strength and to refrain from using it at maximum.

if she didn't have money to burn, you might call it senile dementia. As it is, she is in for rest and a check-up.

I have no hesitation in saying that I have no comment—and you can quote me that that is strictly off the record.

No one partner in life can supply all the possible richnesses of living to another. I speak now not only of physical sexual associations, but also of associations mental and spiritual

Buras? da tüm iyi ailelerde olduÄŸu gibi anarÅŸi ve tiranl???n bir kar???m?d?r, demokrasiye yer yoktur.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.

Ahlakç? dediÄŸin kendi k?staslar?n? evrensel kanunlar zanneden kiÅŸidir. Sen bu yayg?n kötülükten neredeyse tümüyle uzaks?n.

Çaban?n kendilerinden gelmesi gerektiÄŸi fikri... ve yaÅŸad?klar? tüm sorunlar?n kendilerinden kaynakland??? gerçeÄŸi... kabul etmedikleri ya da edemeyecekleri bir ÅŸeydi.

I can think of no surer way to destroy confidence at our most critical period than by having a leader who wears a mask.

A present should show that you considered that person's tastes. Something he would enjoy but probably would not buy.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded—here and there, now and then—are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

When I was younger, I thought I could change this world. Now I no longer think so but for emotional reasons I must keep on fighting a holding action.

You can't sell love and you can't buy Happiness, no price tags on either . . . and if you think there is, the way to Hell lies open.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

Even with Las Vegas giddy around me I felt as alone as Robinson Crusoe.

It is an unwritten law of the Navy that facilities must always be locked when they are most needed.

Okay, she was healthy and if a healthy woman liked to be looked at and not as a side of beef then it follows, as the night from day, that healthy men should like to look at them, else there was just no darn sense to it.

His expression was innocent, his eyes were not. What sort of creature had a face like that?