R A Heinlein Quotes
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R A Heinlein Quotes & Sayings
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I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
— Robert A. Heinlein
She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
— Robert A. Heinlein
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You
— Robert A. Heinlein
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
— Robert A. Heinlein
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
— Robert A. Heinlein
To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Learning ... is - also an end in itself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
— Robert A. Heinlein
