Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes

We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently...in order that we can be frenzied on the battlefield. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that our German enemies really were satanic this time...We had fought something which was totally obscene.

This was very bad for us... One idea put into our heads was that our enemies were so awful, so evil, that we, by contrast, must be remarkably pure. That illusion of purity...has become our curse today. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

THE WINNERS ARE AT WAR WITH THE LOSERS, AND THE FIX IS ON. THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE ARE AWFUL. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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