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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
- Robert A. Heinlein Quote

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

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 Quote

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
- Robert A. Heinlein Quote

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 Quote

"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 Quote

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

Never insult anyone by accident.
- Robert A. Heinlein Quote

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

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 Quote

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein Quote

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

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 Quote

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

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
- Robert A. Heinlein Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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