Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
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