Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

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  Comforting, Comedian, Musician

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

• Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

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  Littles, Jazz, Opinion

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

• It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.

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  Country, Ideas, Usa

• The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.

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  War, People, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

• all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

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  War, Television, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

• Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

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  People, Opinion, Thanks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

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  Islands, People, Heaven

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

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  People, Facts, Action

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

• One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Would Be, Opinion

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