Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. — 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
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
“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
“They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive and who was dead.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue… — 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
“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
“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we… — 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
“the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.” — 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
“And another nice thing about war—not that anything about war is nice, I guess—is that while it’s going on and you’re in… — 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
“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
“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 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
“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly… — 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
