Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

• Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Comfort, Shame, Shame On Me

• She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Too Much, Moments

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.33, Dial Press

• The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.245, Dial Press

• Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Sea, Space

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.1, Dial Press

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