The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Not slaves,” said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. “Citizens, employed by government.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The bank balance was Noel Constant’s share in the estate of his anarchist father. The estate had consisted principally of Government bonds.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Government of the United States neither confirms nor denies that I was an agent of theirs. That's a little something, anyway,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a politician’s gesture—a vulgar public gesture by a man who in private, among his own kind, would take wincing pains… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form a treason” — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Samuel became even more interested in politics than his father had been, served the Republican Party tirelessly as a king-maker, caused that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in… — 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