Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest …

Kurt Vonnegut
638 citations
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Mother Night: A Novel, p.265, Dial Press
Life Reading
8

More Author Quotes

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that whi … ▶
That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). Jailb … ▶
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like Poo-tee-weet? ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2002). Slaughterhouse-Five, Spark Notes
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then the … ▶
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1982). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Dell Books

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Mother Night: A Novel, p.265, Dial Press

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes