Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

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Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

Why? Why does anybody want to go anywhere? Why did the bear go round the mountain? To see what he could see! I've never seen the Rings. That's reason enough to go anywhere. The race has been doing it for all time. The dull ones stay home—and the bright ones stir around and try to see what trouble they can dig up. It's the human pattern. It doesn't need a reason, any more than a flat cat needs a reason to buzz. Why anything?

Back to Rule One: no news broadcasts at meals, no newspapers. No shop talk, no business or financial matters, no discussion of ailments. No political discussion, no mention of taxes, or of foreign or domestic policy. Reading of fiction permitted en famille—not with guests present. Conversation limited to cheerful subjects—" "No scandal, no gossip?" demanded Aunt Hilda.

Whoring is like military service, Ira—okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

What are you smiling about? And five! And four! chanted Meade. Nothing much. After we get to Titan we might— The blast cut off her words; the Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn.

Her frail body, although still agile as a cricket under the Moon's weak pull, was not up to heavy work with a wrench, but her eyes were sharper—and much more experienced—than those of the twins.

everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.

curled up and indulged in that worst of vices, self-pity, doing it thoroughly, with plenty of tears. I don't see anything wrong with crying; it lubricates the psyche.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Presently they came out. Excuse us, folks. Uh, Hazel? What is it, Cas? You said your fee was two-thirds of our net. Huh? Did your leg come away in my hand, chum? I wouldn't— Oh, no, we'd rather pay it. He reached out, dropped half a dozen small coins in her hand. There it is. She looked at it. This is two-thirds of all you made on the deal? After taxes. Of course, added Pollux, it wasn't a total loss. We had the use of the bicycles for a couple of hundred million miles.

A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won't be wrong too often.

Good!" the creature echoed. "Doctor Nelson will be along in a minute. Feel like breakfast?" All symbols were in Smith's vocabulary but he had trouble believing that he had heard rightly. He knew that he was food, but he did not "feel like" food. Nor had he any warning that he might be selected for such honor.

soothing voice assured us that carcinogenous factors were unknown in Coronets, the safe, Safe, SAFE smoke with the true tobacco flavor.

Why were you on that frequency? Because you were wearing a space suit. Why were you wearing it? Because you were determined to space. When a space ship called, you answered. If that is luck, then it is luck every time a batter hits a ball. Kip, 'good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness. You convinced a court older than Man himself that you and your kind were worth saving. Was that mere chance?

The Society for Creative Euthanasia

Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.

I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education

Pluto is so far out that they can't get decent photographs even at Luna Observatory. I had read articles in the Scientific American and seen pictures in LIFE, Bonestelled to look like photographs, and remembered that it was approaching its summer—if "summer" is the word for warm enough to melt air. I recalled that because they had announced that Pluto was showing an atmosphere as it got closer to the Sun.

My husband is a brute. And I've got a cruel stepmother just like Snow White. I mean, Cinderella. And my Pop thinks I'm imaginary. But I love you all anyway because you're all I've got.

before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes; when you have eliminated what you can't do, what remains is what you must do.

I wonder how harmless, such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?

value,' has two factors for a human being: first, what he can do with a thing, its use to him . . . and second, what he must do to get it, its cost to him. There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century;