Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sweet, Atheist, Crazy

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

• Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

• All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Giving, Atheism

• People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheist, Thinking, People

• "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."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

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

• Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Book, Artist

• The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

• There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheism, Foxholes, Chaplains

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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