1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

In a mature society, ‘civil servant’ is semantically equal to ‘civil master.’

There is no safety this side of the grave.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for “art” that leaves him unmoved – if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can’t poke his nose into-that’s the way we’re built and I assume that there’s some reason for that.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate – and quickly.

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 – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Please don’t invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude – and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.