Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.

None of us don't have a vice.

Flaws are really interesting.

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

Men become old, but they never become good.

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.