Kurt Vonnegut Anthropology Quotes & Sayings

I'm on the New York State Council for the Arts now, and every so often some other member talks about sending notices to college English departments about some literary opportunity, and I say, Send them to the chemistry departments, send them to the zoology departments, send them to the anthropology departments and the astronomy departments and physics departments, and all the medical and law schools. That's where the writers are most likely to be. — Kurt Vonnegut

After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly poetry, that involved almost no math at all. — Kurt Vonnegut

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago. — Kurt Vonnegut

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. — Kurt Vonnegut

It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can't stand primitive people - they're so stupid. — Kurt Vonnegut

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. — Kurt Vonnegut

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. — Kurt Vonnegut