Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Animal, Thinking, Environmental

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

• Life is no way to treat an animal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Animal, Way, Life Is

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.50, RosettaBooks

• That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Hurt, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Hocus Pocus”, p.41, Random House

• The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Animal, Thinking, Ideas

• Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Animal, Wind

• It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator. The people down here just ate that up!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.141, Penguin

• The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Animal, People

  Interview with David Brancaccio, "NOW" on PBS, www.pbs.org. October 07, 2005.

• You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Animal, Giving, Emancipation Proclamation

• I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

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  Dog, Teacher, Cat

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.104, Penguin

• It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, Animal, Advantage

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.49, Dial Press

• Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hurt, Mean, Animal

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.42, Penguin

• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, Animal, Years

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