Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Hate

Quotes about: Hate

• Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Hate, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

• America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wise, Hate, Men

  "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969.

• 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

• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

• ...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Believe, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Men, Evil

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

• Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Brave, Next

• But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Basketball, Girl, Hate

• if there is a god, he sure hates people

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, If There Is A God, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.64, Penguin

• Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Machines, Wonder

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

• America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, America, People

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

• I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Book, Ideas

• One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hate, School

  Source: artisticactivism.org

• People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, College

• Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Mean, Class

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