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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Hate

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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Running, Hate, Long

Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

Wise, Hate, Men

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

Hate, Believe, Laughing

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

Hate, War, College

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Laughter, Hate, Thinking

Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. 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's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

Hate, War, Fighting

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Hate, Book, Ideas

'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

Pain, Hate, Real

"Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

Hate, Brave, Next

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.

Hate, Men, Evil

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.251, Dial Press

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Fear, Hate, Hard Work

"Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Hate, Fighting, Imagine

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 21, 2015

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

Hate, Machines, Wonder

Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Art, Hate, School

Source: artisticactivism.org

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

Basketball, Girl, Hate

if there is a god, he sure hates people

Hate, If There Is A God, People

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.64, Penguin

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

Hate, America, People

KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

Hate, Mean, Class

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