People Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

if there is a god, he sure hates people

— Kurt Vonnegut

“People aren't supposed to look back.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

— Kurt Vonnegut

People who were so good. There were angels.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Nice, nice, very nice-- So many different people in the same device.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

— Kurt Vonnegut

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

— Kurt Vonnegut

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

— Kurt Vonnegut

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

— Kurt Vonnegut

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard…

— Kurt Vonnegut

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I…

— Kurt Vonnegut