1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job.""If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs.

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.