Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Giving

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All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Kurt Vonnegut

People, Giving, Atheism

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

Giving, Earth Day, Environmental

I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

Kurt Vonnegut

Jesus, Giving, People

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Kurt Vonnegut

Writing, Should Have, Giving

Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

Kurt Vonnegut

Men, Practice, Giving

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

Kurt Vonnegut

Years, Iraq, Giving

Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

Kurt Vonnegut

Mother, Giving, Ungrateful

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

Kurt Vonnegut

Cutting, Giving, Lessons

"Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

Kurt Vonnegut

Ideas, Apples, Giving

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.84, Penguin

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

Kurt Vonnegut

Editors, Giving, Hell

"Front Page story: Chicago's City News office is shut" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2006.

What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

Kurt Vonnegut

Religious, Giving, Water

"Vonnegut at 80" by David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.