Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Truth, Pride

• Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Men, Evil

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.64, RosettaBooks

• But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Children, Pride

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

• The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Military, Men

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• The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Military, Men

• Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Growing Up, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.265, Dial Press

• The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Adults, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.1, Seven Stories Press

• Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Rocks, Color

• He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Daughter, Children, Ignorance

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.92, Penguin

• You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Children, War

  Slaughterhouse-Five ch. 5 (1969)

• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, War, Holiday

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

• I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Bothered, Bewitched

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.178, Penguin

• If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Now And Then, Lost

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.59, Penguin

• The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Appreciation, Art, Children

  Kurt Vonnegut's Commencement Address at Bennington College, 1970.

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