Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
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In case you haven’t noticed, we … dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.
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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
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Things die. All things die.
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'The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,' she said, 'would be to not be used for anything by anybody.' ... 'Thank you for using me,' she said to Constant, 'even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.'
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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'The hell with the human race!' said Beatrice.'You’re a member of it, you know,' said Rumfoord.'Then I’d like to put in for a transfer to the chimpanzees!' said Beatrice. 'No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts.'
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Nothing in this book is true.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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We've sure come a long way since then. Sometimes I wish we hadn't. I hate H-bombs and the Jerry Springer show.