# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

> These displaced people need something, and the clergy can't give it to them—or it's impossible for them to take what the clergy offers. The clergy says it's enough, and so does the Bible. The people say it isn't enough, and I suspect they're right.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Player Piano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano.md)
- Page: 92
- 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/these-displaced-people

## 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)