War Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Flashlight beams danced crazily”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That made me hate you more. Happiness had no place in war”

— Kurt Vonnegut

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

— Kurt Vonnegut

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for?”

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“the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

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“Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman…

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“There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying…

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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’ What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being…

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What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly…

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Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was one of the things about the end of the war: Absolutely anybody who wanted a weapon could have one. They…

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When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with…

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“Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought…

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“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was…

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I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground… It…

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“Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both…

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After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in…

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“You were just babies then!", she said. "What?" I said. "You were just babies in the war - like the ones upstairs!"…

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“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be…

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“But you’re not going to write it that way, are you.” This wasn’t a question. It was an accusation. “I—I don’t know,”…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Weary was as new to war as Billy. He was a replacement, too. As a part of a gun crew, he had…

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The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

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“We are gathered here, friends,” he said, “to honor lo Hoon-yera Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war.…

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“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Dr. Kevorkian has just unstrapped me from the gurney after yet another controlled near-death experience. I was lucky enough on this trip…

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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.”

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Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”

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“For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies”

— Kurt Vonnegut