5 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Change

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on change

26. 'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'

68. You know what gets me? ... How everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. I used to be scared shitless I'd say 'fuck' or 'shit' in public, by accident. Now everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit', 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. Something very big must have happened while we were out of the country.

84. Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.

133. Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next - and on and on.

134. Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.