Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Humanity

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Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking, Humanity, Humans

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.41, Penguin

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

Kurt Vonnegut

Dream, Believe, Humanity

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sweet, Humanity, Planets

Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

Kurt Vonnegut

Men, Dumb, Humanity