10 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on vonnegut

5. I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

39. The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

53. We Bokonists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon 'If you find your life tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons,' writes Bokonon, 'that person may be a member of your karass.' At another point in The Books of Bokonon he tells us, 'Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.' By that he means that a karass ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries. It is as free form as an amoeba.

58. Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled.

60. I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

61. So it goes.

106. We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

188. In case you haven't noticed, we:dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.

196. Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

216. If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.