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Men Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

52 Men quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut questions the idea that men can always fix everything, calling it a false belief. He calls out violent acts like the Nagasaki bombing as especially cruel, and he jokes that men just want friends and wish people weren’t so angry at them. He also uses a fire engine as a strong picture of human kindness.

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A man without a home can't be lost.

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

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Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

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

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

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He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I…

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

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

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After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

“People aren't supposed to look back.”

“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.”

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“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on…

“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it”

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.”

“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…

“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that…

“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a…

“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent…

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,…

“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty…