Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

American - Writer July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Women, Men, Relax, Cats, Pet, Will

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

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein

Power, Stupidity, Underestimate, Never

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, Anything

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

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science, Impossible, Done, Everything

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

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Live, Anniversary, You, Long, Wish

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, Mind, Love Is, Jealousy

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

You, Result, Government, End, Church

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Out, Alive, Irony, Supreme, Anyone

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Children, Easy, Your, Making, Handicap

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Beautiful, Flowers, Humanity

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

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein

Funny, Temptation, Way, Your, May, Pass

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

Alone, Freedom, I Am, Me, Know, Free

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. - Robert A. Heinlein

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Robert A. Heinlein

Man, Magic, Engineering, Word, Another

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, Being Happy, Others

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

Life, Good, Society, Manners, Back, Up

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Love Is, Sex, Exercise, Without

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

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Learning, Man, Me, Never, Who, Learned

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

Black, Dark, Help, Never, Midnight, Cat

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

Robert A. Heinlein

You, Strong, Drink, Miss, Tax, Shoot

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

Right, Being, Soon, Unacceptable, Too

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Robert A. Heinlein

Man, Laugh, Belly, Theology, Another

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

People, Political, Race, Never, Desire

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Freedom, Peace, You, Count, Once, Both

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Want, Wednesday, Wanted

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

Society, Downhill, Troublemakers, Goes

Never insult anyone by accident.

Robert A. Heinlein

Insult, Never, Accident, Anyone

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