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As I read the book of Genesis, God didn’t give Adam and Eve a whole planet – he gave them a manageable piece of property.
...I suggest to you Adams and Eves that you set as your goals the putting of some small part of the planet into something like safe and sane and decent order.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My politics in a nutshell? Let’s stop giving corporations and newfangled contraptions what they need and get back to giving human beings what we need.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dostoevsky suggested that one sacred memory from childhood was, perhaps, the best education.
I say to you that one plausible, romantic theory about humanity is perhaps the best prize you can take away from a university.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as there is a lower class, I’m in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there’s a soul in prison, I am not free.
Speaker: Eugene DebsSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most of us are loaded with Original Sin, but a surprising number of us – not me, God knows – are loaded with Original Virtue. Ain’t that sweet?
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like, great public schools or health insurance for all.
How about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,” and so on. Not exactly planks in a Republican platform.
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But often, with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And, of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom?
“Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon?
Gimme a break.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your government does not exist, and should not exist, in order to keep you or anybody else – no matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what religion – from getting your damn fool feelings hurt.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am enchanted by the Sermon on the Mount. Being merciful, it seems to me, is the only good idea we have had so far. Perhaps we will get another good idea by and by. And then, we will have two good ideas.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s only one rule that I know of: goddammit, you’ve got to be kind!
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Speaker: Richard Buckminster FullerPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Speaker: Frederick DouglassPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will know that you are free when you no longer have to be you.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizSource: the Tree of KnowledgePosted: 21 May 2014 at 4:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are too many lies in my head to accept something as simple as the truth.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizSource: the Voice of KnowledgePosted: 21 May 2014 at 3:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For children, love is a feeling. For adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts. Adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Speaker: Orson Scott CardSource: PathfinderPosted: 26 Mar 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
None of us knows God until someone introduces us.
Speaker: "Pi Patel"Source: the Life of PiPosted: 04 Mar 2014 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People have one great blessing – obscurity – and not really too many people are thankful for it.
Speaker: Bob DylanPosted: 26 Feb 2014 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Privilege is when you think that something’s not a problem because it’s not a problem for you personally. If you’re part of a group that’s being catered to, you believe that’s the way it should be. It’s always been that way, why would that be a problem for anyone?
Speaker: David GaiderPosted: 25 Feb 2014 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!