Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
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I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
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You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.
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How embarrassing to be human.
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I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.
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What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?
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Busy, busy, busy.
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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I wish one and all long and happy lives, no matter what may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen! Don’t smoke cigarettes. Cigars, however, are good for you … Firearms are also good for you … Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol. That goes for dumdums, too.
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A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
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If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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They're playin our song Gene!
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'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'