Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy, Insecurity, Person

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Society, Life, Good

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Freedom, Alone, Everything

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Pet, Women, Men

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Power, Stupidity, Human

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Political, Human, Desire

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Children, Easy, Making

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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein

Everything, Done, Impossible

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, End, May

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Happy

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein

Fun, Become, Stop

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein

May, Again, Temptation

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Sex, Healthy

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Live, Long

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein

Peace, Freedom, Once

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein

Strong, Miss, Drink

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

Religion, Power, Political

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein

Time, Best, Travel

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein

Learning, Learned, Agreed

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein

Made, Authority, Statement

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Wanted, Wednesday

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein

Writing, Hands, Private

Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein

Insult, Anyone, Accident

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Help, Black, Dark

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 7, 1907

Died: May 8, 1988

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