Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

At first I thought it was a fur cap; now I see it's alive. Castor pointed to the furry heap on the counter. It was slowly slithering toward the edge. The shopkeeper reached out and headed it back to the middle. That?

women have birthdays, men have ages.

The spirit of a good woman cannot be coded by nucleic acids arranged in a double helix, and only an overeducated fool could think so.

We were disgraced and we felt disgraced.

I could not make him understand that Heaven was not Heaven to me without Margrethe

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's.

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.

vÅ¡echny systémy', dokonce i takzvané 'neohrani?ené demokracie' vylu?ovaly z ob?anství ne ménÄ› než ?tvrtinu své populace v d?sledku vÄ›ku, narození, danÄ› z hlavy, kriminálního rejstÃ…â"¢íku nebo dalÅ¡ího.

For myself, I long since came to the firm conclusion that a man can do more productive work, and make more money if that is his object, by sitting down with his hands in his pockets than by any form of physical activity. Do you happen to know the average yearly income of a meteor miner? Well, no, but— Less than six hundred a year. But some of them get rich!

v naÅ¡em systému je každý voli? a úÃ…â"¢edník ?lovÄ›k, který prokázal dobrovolnou a t?žkou službou, že klade dobro skupiny nad osobní výhody.

If you don't love yourself, no one else will. If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.

jak se jednou dostanete do sledu velení, musíte být neustále pÃ…â"¢ipraveni pÃ…â"¢ijmout vyÅ¡Å¡í velení. Jste-li v oddíle o jedné ?etÄ› - dost pravdÄ›podobné, v nynÄ›jÅ¡ím stadiu války - a jste pomocníkem velitele ?ety, když to váÅ¡ velitel koupí... pak... vy ... jste... jím!

If you're going to be businessmen, don't confuse the vocation with larceny.

Just as this free-lance socialist was gathering up their day's receipts, Joe lets him have it, with a cleaver. Curtain. The only notable thing about it was that Joe acted so quickly and correctly in the crunch, for I feel sure that the only fighting that he had ever tried was that which I forced on him in the 'Libby.

An Ad-Hoc Inquiry Concerning the Optimization of the Infrastructure of Primary Educational Institutions at the Interface Between Administration and Instruction, with Special Attention to Group Dynamics Desiderata.

The Legion of Space?

Joe did everything else properly, too—finished taking the head off, threw the body into the street for his friends to take away if he had any, for the scavengers to remove if not—then displayed the head in front of the shop on a spike meant for such purpose. Then he closed his shutters and cleaned up the mess—then may have taken time to throw up;

Boss, there ain't no such animal as a well-documented conspiracy.

A man isn't a collection of chemical reactions, he is a collection of ideas.

we are even developing an exact ethic for extra-human relations.

Infinity" is not a number; it is a metaphysical hang-up.)

I started to try to talk sense but was cut off by a giant voice from everywhere: "YOU ARE NOW BEING JUDGED!

Joe was a gentle soul. But it's seven to two that Llita did not throw up. "The city's committee for public safety voted Joe the usual reward, and the street committee passed the hat and added to it; a cleaver against a gun rated special notice. Good advertising for Estelle's Kitchen but not important otherwise, save that the kids could use that money

I don't know when I became aware that the Mother Thing was not, or wasn't quite, a female. But it didn't matter; being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.