More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.
To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
