1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

It is better to copulate than never.

Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!