Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Robert A. Heinlein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Volunteer
Says
Stand
Enough
Important
Thing
Men
Time
Counted
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when peace meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
Robert A. Heinlein
Budget the luxuries first.
Robert A. Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
War is not violence and killing, pure and simple war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.
Robert A. Heinlein
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
Robert A. Heinlein
In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
Robert A. Heinlein
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
Robert A. Heinlein
You don’t pay back, you pay forward.
Robert A. Heinlein
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
Robert A. Heinlein
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society.
Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
Robert A. Heinlein
There is no such thing as luck there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
Never tease an old dog he might have one bite left.
Robert A. Heinlein
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
Robert A. Heinlein
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
Robert A. Heinlein
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
Robert A. Heinlein
