Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Taken, Government

  "Custodians of chaos", www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

• What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eye, Purpose, Ears

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Eye, Pockets

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