Top 86 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

About Kurt Vonnegut

These are some quotes by American author Kurt Vonnegut Author, who lived between November 11, 1922 and April 11, 2007.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Kurt Vonnegut

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Kurt Vonnegut

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Kurt Vonnegut

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Kurt Vonnegut

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