Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Cat, Kids

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

• So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Survival

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

• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

• The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Animal, Thinking, Ideas

• I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Survival, Survivor

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

• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, Animal, Years

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