The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life – is… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
