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
How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't. — 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
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest. — 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 Image
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 Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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