1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side,

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.