“His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The whole point of war is to put women everywhere in that condition. It's always men against women, with the men only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of World War Two. It was all right with him. Everything… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unk was at war with his environment. He had come to regard his environment as being either malevolent or cruelly mismanaged. His… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He won all those medals in the Second World War, which was staged by robots so that Dwayne Hoover could give a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of good reason for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!” I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was,"… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There would be Jews in the pageant?" I asked him. "Certainly-" he said, "thousands of them." "May I ask, sir," I said,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A couple of weeks after I telephoned my old war buddy, Bernard V. O’Hare, I really did go to see him. That… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trnk as a coffin for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ridiculous! Why don’t you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came… — 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
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive adn who was dead.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles. We are now prepared to obliterate… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had… — 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
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 Image
“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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