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War Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,…
- During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
- Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal…
- A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry…
- Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
- Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
- I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything…
- World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just…
- I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was…
- I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a…
- All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
- Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt…
- There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…
- They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...…
- Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
- The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were…
- Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard…
- The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea…
- Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.
- Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He…
- I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body…
- Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to…
- There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too.…
- I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure…
- Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood