“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.” — 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
“Thinking the guy up ahead knows what he's doing is the most dangerous religion there is.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and… — 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 name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Earthlings did very well on paper. That was part of the rigging, of course. And religion got mixed up in it,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space... [who] made a serious… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — 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