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America Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties,…
- Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States…
- But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this…
- During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
- The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
- So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives…
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American…
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
- 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on…
- You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because…
- Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The…
- After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned…
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact…
- Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon