Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

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

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

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

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

"Sex without love is merely healthy exercise."

"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."

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

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

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."