Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement, Giving Up, Communication

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

• Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cancer, Lakes, Community

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

• 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

• A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Faith, Mean, Other Cultures

• I want a military funeral when I die—the 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 anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Squad

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

• The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Community, Soul, Library

• What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Community, Causes

  "Thoughts of a Free Thinker". Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (May 26, 1974), as quoted in Kurt Vonnegut "Palm Sunday", 1981.

• Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Punishment, Afterlife, Expectations

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