Robert A. Heinlein Quotes (138 Quotes)
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- The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids arenÆt even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madmanÆs conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers")
- Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- There is no safety this side of the grave
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers")
- Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers")
- Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers")
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
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