Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. Robert A. Heinlein More Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein More Quotes From Robert A. Heinlein In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life. Robert A. Heinlein survival fighting order The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein fuzzy differences science When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has. Robert A. Heinlein volunteer running long In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly. Robert A. Heinlein insects moving A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. Robert A. Heinlein astrology determination science If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain! Robert A. Heinlein volunteer country people I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working. Robert A. Heinlein easier stealing writing Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96) Robert A. Heinlein stupid animal men Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down. Robert A. Heinlein military-service okay military There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Robert A. Heinlein nuisance unbearable men Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime. Robert A. Heinlein stronger news success It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women. Robert A. Heinlein wife impossible men My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. Robert A. Heinlein volunteer important men Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth. Robert A. Heinlein dad math jobs You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong. Robert A. Heinlein pardon economic theory Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. Robert A. Heinlein sadistic fool truth I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. Robert A. Heinlein clothings articles persons 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. Robert A. Heinlein writing way rooms A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup. Robert A. Heinlein cups girl names If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog. Robert A. Heinlein ifs dog
