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Human Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
- The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
- Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
- If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I…
- 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…
- 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…
- What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain…
- Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
- Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
- What a bummer it is to be a human being.
- How embarrassing it is to be human.
- She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by.…
- It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to…
- God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
- I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical,…
- Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when…
- I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were…
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back,…
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
- Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a…
- Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool…
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- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong