Peace Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

“People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for?”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

— Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Imagine fighting for a country where the only civilian you know is a Chinese laundryman!”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I'm not a soldier, not a political man. I'm an artist. If war comes, I won't do anything to help it along.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’ What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Is it an anti-war book?” “Yes,” I said. “I guess.” “You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing…

— Kurt Vonnegut

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He watched his brother find peace of mind through psychiatry. That’s why he won’t have anything to do with it. I don’t…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was how a household as contradictory as one composed of Hones, Father Keeley, Vice-Bundesfueher Krapptauer, and the Black Fuehrer could exist…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And then it developed that Campbell was not going to go unanswered after all. Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And another nice thing about war—not that anything about war is nice, I guess—is that while it’s going on and you’re in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?” “No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?” “I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I hope that we’ll meet again in a world of peace and freedom in the taxi cab if the accident will.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Then the soldiers relaxed in ranks, as though given the order at ease. Their obligations under this order were to relax, but…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred…

— Kurt Vonnegut