Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

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

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.