« All Animal Quotes · Kurt Vonnegut's Page
Animal Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly…
- It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it…
- Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it…
- Life is no way to treat an animal.
- That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're…
- Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do…
- The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and…
- We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
- The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,…
- It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To…
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough