# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

> "Strange business," said Lasher. "This crusading spirit of the managers and engineers, the idea of designing and manufacturing and distributing being sort of a holy war: all that folklore was cooked up by public relations and advertising men hired by managers and engineers to make big business popular in the old days, which it certainly wasn't in the beginning. Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon."

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Player Piano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano.md)
- Page: 93
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Player_Piano_(1952)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/strange-business-said

## More from this book

> You know, in a way I wish I hadn't met you two. It's much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/you-know-in-a-way.md)

> It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and history as to be able to move in only one plane, and along one line.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/it-was-an-appalling.md)

> "Why are you quitting?"
>
> "Sick of my job."
>
> "Because what you were doing was morally bad?" suggested the voice.
>
> "Because it wasn't getting anybody anywhere. Because it was getting everybody nowhere."
>
> "Because it was evil?" insisted the voice.
>
> "Because it was pointless."

p. 271 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/why-are-you.md)