The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
