Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Religious, Loneliness

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

• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Fighting, Imagine

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 21, 2015

• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, Fighting

• I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Breakup, Fighting

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.2, Random House

• His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

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  Fighting, Hands, Passive Resistance

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.203, Dial Press

• Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Kids, Fighting

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

• On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Different, Bombs

• You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

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  Fighting, Self, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

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  Fighting, Reason, Mother Night

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.251, Dial Press

• The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Tanks, Division

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.14, Penguin

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