War Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

“That made me hate you more. Happiness had no place in war”

— Kurt Vonnegut

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Flashlight beams danced crazily”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry…

— 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

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve…

— 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

“Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden. It had been decreed…

— 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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive and who was dead.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Dr. Kevorkian has just unstrapped me from the gurney after yet another controlled near-death experience. I was lucky enough on this trip…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“But you’re not going to write it that way, are you.” This wasn’t a question. It was an accusation. “I—I don’t know,”…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Weary was as new to war as Billy. He was a replacement, too. As a part of a gun crew, he had…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We are gathered here, friends,” he said, “to honor lo Hoon-yera Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The very toughest reporters were women who had taken over the jobs of men who'd gone to war.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut