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A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

Robert A. Heinlein
Hate, Science, Men
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

Robert A. Heinlein
Believe, Mind, Religion
Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

Robert A. Heinlein
Socialist, Bloody

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Robert A. Heinlein
Running, Religion, Way
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Robert A. Heinlein
Mother, Children, Opinion
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

Robert A. Heinlein
Country, Baby, Men
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 188), 1950.

Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sex, Lying, Thinking
Introduction to "Cliff and the Calories" in "Expanded Universe" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 355), 1980.

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

Robert A. Heinlein
Dog, Might, Tease
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.19, Penguin

First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

Robert A. Heinlein
Love, Happiness, Spiritual
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.401, Penguin

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

Robert A. Heinlein
Want, Existential, Accepting

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Robert A. Heinlein
Men, Lazy Man, Progress
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.61, Penguin

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

Robert A. Heinlein
Latin, Saws, Seems
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Robert A. Heinlein
Freedom, Mistress, Being Free
Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Robert A. Heinlein
Philosophy, Lunch, Political
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ch. 11 (1966).

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

Robert A. Heinlein
Baby, Children, Learning

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sex, Things In Life, People
"Famous Quotes About Sex" by Ron Grisham, March 18, 2017.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

Robert A. Heinlein
Girl, Moving, Past
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.159, Penguin

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Robert A. Heinlein
Struggle, Race, Golden

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Robert A. Heinlein
Atheist, Firsts, Principles

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein
Gun, Self, Law

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sweet, Savages, Gentle
Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.167, Hachette UK

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Robert A. Heinlein
Military, War, Winning

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

Robert A. Heinlein
Death, Suicide, Men

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

Robert A. Heinlein
Tribes, Injustice, Sin
Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Robert A. Heinlein
Laughing, Able, Complicated
"I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 442), 1987.

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