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If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

Kurt Vonnegut
Jesus, Ideas, Progress
Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

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

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

Kurt Vonnegut
Past, Thinking, Progress
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.19, Dial Press

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Kurt Vonnegut
Science, Space, Progress
The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

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