Quotes from Cold Turkey — Kurt Vonnegut
1922–2007 United States
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Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.
Cold Turkey (2004)
They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
Cold Turkey (2004)
I have to say this in defense of humankind: No matter in what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got there.
Cold Turkey (2004)
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Cold Turkey (2004)
I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Cold Turkey (2004)
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
Cold Turkey (2004)
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Cold Turkey (2004)
Even crazier than golf, though, is modern American politics, where, thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Cold Turkey (2004)