Robert A. Heinlein on War
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, catalogued under war, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein and filed under "war" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #57258: "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss."
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #103385: "When it comes down to it, the root cause of war is always population pressure no matter what other factors enter in."
9 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein on War
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss."
"When it comes down to it, the root cause of war is always population pressure no matter what other factors enter in."
"The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it."
"Remember, though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp—provided it’s loaded."
"There was nothing under her clothes but girl and assorted items of lethal hardware."
"I do not like weapons, Doctor; they are the last resort of faulty diplomacy."
"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
"Fighting continued on a token basis, and the dead did not complain."
"Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes."