"I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please – a little less love, and a little more common decency.’"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
from Slapstick, or Lonesome No More
"Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable."
Kurt Vonnegut
from Breakfast of Champions
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
from God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
“The mob was only a means to strengthen their position, to give their voices a greater resonance. Obviously they neither could nor wanted to organize the mob, and would dismiss it once their aim was achieved. But they discovered that antisemitic slogans were highly effective in mobilizing large strata of the population.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
