Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that… — 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