Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.