The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Kurt VonnegutIt pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. Thatโs all I can say.
Kurt VonnegutYou know โ we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God โ ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
Kurt Vonnegut