Men Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

A man without a home can't be lost.

— Kurt Vonnegut

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— 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

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

— Kurt Vonnegut

man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a…

— 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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million…

— 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

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates…

— Kurt Vonnegut

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,…

— 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

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor…

— Kurt Vonnegut