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“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die… and accepts his sentence undismayed.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey…”

Robert A. Heinlein book Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“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 book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse”

Robert A. Heinlein

“He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Star Beast

Source: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 14, “Destiny? Fiddlesticks!” (p. 219)

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

“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.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long