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More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
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.
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
