If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else… — 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
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
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
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
The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have… — 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
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad… — 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
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 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
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
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she… — 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
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
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
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
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet. — 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 must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
