# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

> A lot of the people on the wrecked planet were Communists. They had a theory that what was left of the planet should be shared more or less equally among all the people, who hadn't asked to come to a wrecked planet in the first place. Meanwhile, more babies were arriving all the time—kicking and screaming, yelling for milk.
>
> In some places people would actually try to eat mud or such on gravel while babies were being born just a few feet away.
>
> And so on.
>
> Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to.
>
> So they didn't have to.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Breakfast of Champions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Breakfast_of_Champions_(1973)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions/a-lot-of-the

## More from this book

> Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions/like-most-science-fiction.md)

> Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions/our-awareness-is-all.md)

> Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions/charm-was-a-scheme.md)