Human beings Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes - with babies' legs on one…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In time, almost all men and women will become worthless as producers of goods, food, services, and more machines, as sources of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The mind is the only thing about human beings that’s worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut