Citizen of the Galaxy Quotes

“- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“...most things are right or wrong only in their backgrounds; few things are good or evil in themselves.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“Freedom is a hard habit to break.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do . . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!” “Son, that’s universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Which is right now.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“They're not cruel; they're just pig-headed and provincial. The fact that you have feelings never occurs to them.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“But don't worry; almost no one in this ship speaks System English and she isn't one of the few. They talk their 'secret language' -- only it isn't secret; it's just Finnish.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“ROAD”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy