Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
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
Benefit
Debt
Spending
Benefits
Taxes
Liberty
Levied
Politics
Taxed
Libertarian
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
Robert A. Heinlein
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
Robert A. Heinlein
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
Robert A. Heinlein
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
Robert A. Heinlein
Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
Robert A. Heinlein
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
Robert A. Heinlein
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Robert A. Heinlein
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Robert A. Heinlein
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert A. Heinlein
A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
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
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is the will of the people ... but the problem changes only superficially.
Robert A. Heinlein
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
Robert A. Heinlein
Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.
Robert A. Heinlein
God created men to test the souls of women.
Robert A. Heinlein
