Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Could it be that every one of all religions is true?

Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.) "Oh

all public employees have larceny in their hearts or they wouldn't be feeding at the public trough

Have heard of armies where boss is not told to shut up – word is 'discipline.' But we were amateurs.

But I could if I took the time and sweat to learn the language of electronics; it's not miraculous—just complex. Teleportation is simple, once you learn the language—it's the language that is difficult.

The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

His lights blinked in binary read-out as he answered by voder, "Eleven thousand two hundred thirty-eight with uncertainty plus-minus eighty-one representing possible identities and nulls. Shall I start program?

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

No. 'Grok' is the most important word in the language—and I expect to spend years trying to understand it.

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

He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave him alone!—all

Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

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

Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immortality, he purposed to live each golden moment as eternity—without fear, without hope, with sybaritic gusto.

women should be obscene but not heard.

Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror. What modern artists do is pseudo-intellectual masturbation. Creative art is intercourse, in which the artist renders emotional his audience.

People are so used to the computer net today that it is easy to forget what a window to the world it can be—and I include myself. One can grow so canalized in using a terminal only in certain ways—paying bills, making telephonic calls, listening to news bulletins—that one can neglect its richer uses. If a subscriber is willing to pay for the service, almost anything can be done at a terminal that can be done out of bed.

So what is their crime? Twofold: a) The Shipstone companies are guilty of supplying energy to the human race at prices below those of their competitors; b) They meanly and undemocratically decline to share their industrial secret of the final assembly stage of a Shipstone.

If a captain worries about the safety of his command, those under him need not worry.

stupidity, and self-seeking, he resembles his fellow Americans but is a notch or two above average. Then look at the man who will replace him if his government topples.

and when you're home, what's wrong with skin? Or as near as local custom permits.

Belle was not only a perfect secretary and office manager, she also had personal specs which would have delighted Praxiteles and a fragrance which affected me the way catnip does Pete.

He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

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