Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

“Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. Thats a law of nature, to be known henceforth as Harshaws Law.”

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

“The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.”

“If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conce...”

“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and ...”

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actual...”

“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over b...”

“Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us us humans death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”

“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”

“Bakalarnn iine burnunu sokmamak insann sahip olabilecei bilgeliin yzde seksenidir... kalan yzde yirmi de pek nemli deildir zaten.”

“Bir kaplann srtnda yolculuk etmenin en nemli kural, kulaklarn asla brakmamaktr.”

“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 ...”

“Secrecy begets tyranny.”

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid ...”

“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on my mind was devastating. Sometimes I would glance over my shoulder to see...”

“Freedom is a hard habit to break.”

“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”