1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.