Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
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
Start
Religion
Identifying
Language
Racial
Anything
Sign
Whole
Population
Country
Group
Long
Groups
People
Stop
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Robert A. Heinlein
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
Robert A. Heinlein
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
Robert A. Heinlein
I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
Robert A. Heinlein
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
Robert A. Heinlein
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
Robert A. Heinlein
Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
Robert A. Heinlein
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
Robert A. Heinlein
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
Robert A. Heinlein
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
Robert A. Heinlein
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
Robert A. Heinlein
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
Robert A. Heinlein
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
Robert A. Heinlein
Men are not potatoes!
Robert A. Heinlein
Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
Robert A. Heinlein
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
Robert A. Heinlein
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
