Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.