Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

I think it's going to be a doosey. I mean, talk about a fistfight in a whorehouse.

And slay them (the infidels) wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.