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
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out...… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote… — 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
We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They… — 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
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find… — 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
This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on. Happily… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the… — 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
