The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.