1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.