Knows Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Forgive him- he knows not what he does.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

— 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

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

— Kurt Vonnegut

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer…

— Kurt Vonnegut

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— 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

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

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life – is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You…

— Kurt Vonnegut

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how…

— Kurt Vonnegut