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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about War - Page 2

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World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it

World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.

Brother, Stars, War

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

Military, War, Men

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.

War, People, Germany

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

Fun, War, Tennis

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

War, School, Government

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

War, Reading, Long

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

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

War, Television, World

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Baby, War, Believe

Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

Running, War, Cutting

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

Military, War, Squad

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

War, Life Lesson, Eye

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Children, War, Holiday

"Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 114, 1963.

The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.

Dog, Morning, War

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

War, Attractive Things, Littles

Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

War, Believe, Glaciers

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.144, Infobase Publishing

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

War, Government, Drug

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

War, Musician, Cards

"Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

War, Casualties, Ends

"The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Daniel Stern and Barbara Stone, www.robertcaro.com.

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

War, Taken, Vietnam

Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.108, Dial Press

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

New York, War, Gentleman

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated.

Country, War, Artist

Source: www.sharedhost.progressive.org

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

War, Slaughterhouse Five, Veteran

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.156, Infobase Publishing

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

War, Slaughterhouse Five, Literature

Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

Father, War, Teaching

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

Husband, Father, War

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.223, Dial Press

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