Robert A. Heinlein Quotes, Thoughts and images

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

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

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

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

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

A generation that ignores history has no past and no future.

Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run