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“A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“A motion to adjourn is always in order.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'… and the other twenty percent isn't very important.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

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

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Well, I suppose it did.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers

“A Paradox May Be Paradoctored.”

Robert A. Heinlein book "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)
Variant: A Paradox May Be Paradoctored.