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Quotes from A Man Without a Country — Kurt Vonnegut

1922–2007 United States

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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

A Man Without a Country (2005)

We've sure come a long way since then. Sometimes I wish we hadn't. I hate H-bombs and the Jerry Springer show.

A Man Without a Country (2005)

You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.

A Man Without a Country (2005)

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

A Man Without a Country (2005)

I say of Jesus, as all humanists do. "If what he said is good, and so much of it is absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not?"
But if Christ hadn't delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn't want to be a human being.
I'd just as soon be a rattlesnake.

A Man Without a Country (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kurt Vonnegut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.