35 Quotes By Robert A. Heinlein


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

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

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

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

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

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 on power

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 on religion

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein on science

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein on science

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein on science

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 on society

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

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 on time

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 on travel

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