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Human Beings Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- 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…
- Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
- 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.…
- God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
- Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when…
- 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…
- Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the…
- Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.…
- ...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to…
- Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very…
- Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see…
- 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…
More Human Beings Quotes
- 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
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- 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
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville