We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. — 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
My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. — 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
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
“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
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — 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
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 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
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The bible may be the greatest story every told, but the most popular story is about a couple fornicating that stops for… — 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
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
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
“Sure the bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking… — 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
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
“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 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
“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
![“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space... [who] made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93d/kurt-vonnegut-41_bible_it-was-the-gospel-from-outer-space-by-ki_1230081.jpg)
