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Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.
By Robert A. Heinlein
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. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion
By Robert A. Heinlein
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain
By Robert A. Heinlein
We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies And the cool green hills of Earth.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
By Robert A. Heinlein
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
By Robert A. Heinlein
To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
By Robert A. Heinlein
The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
By Robert A. Heinlein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
By Robert A. Heinlein
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
By Robert A. Heinlein
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
By Robert A. Heinlein
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Of all the strange crimes that human beings have legislated of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for the second and third place.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
By Robert A. Heinlein
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
By Robert A. Heinlein
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
By Robert A. Heinlein