Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Guns

Quotes about: Guns

• Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Pigs

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

• War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.88, Seven Stories Press

• I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love You, Mean, Gun

• The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Gun, Zippers, Slaughterhouse Five

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.51, Infobase Publishing

• We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Gun, Nuts, Crow

• American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Horse, Gun, Nuts

• My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Gun, Men, Safety

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