Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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'I tell you, Mr. Constant,' he said genially, 'it’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.'
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The riot, then, was an exercise in science and theology-a seeking after clues by the living as to what life was all about.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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These displaced people need something, and the clergy can’t give it to them-or it’s impossible for them to take what the clergy offers. The clergy says it’s enough, and so does the Bible. The people say it isn’t enough, and I suspect they’re right.
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All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
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When you're dead you're dead.
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
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'We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party.'
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As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
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'I liked him very much,' said Constant.'The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,' said Beatrice.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.
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The controls were anything but a hunch-player’s delight in a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.