1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.

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.

His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

Drop dead-but first get permit

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.