Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong — but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
“Really?”
“That’s straight out of the Bible; you can look it up.”

No, chum, there’s a lot of guff talked about freedom. No man is free. There is no such thing as freedom. There are only various privileges.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Fighting continued on a token basis, and the dead did not complain.

She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned — rather slowly; I wasn’t too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Population pressure works much like a rising river. You can put up dikes or levees, but the day comes when the river has to go somewhere.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

“You have us going faster than light.”
“I thought the figures were a bit large.”