Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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

• If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

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  Atheist, Alive, Today

• If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

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  Jesus, Ideas, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

• 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

• Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

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  Government, People, Drunk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.169, Penguin

• 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.

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  Basketball, Girl, Hate

• Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

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  Jobs, Believe, Heart

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.92, Dial Press

• 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

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