1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

(E)ach generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup -- if any.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

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

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.