It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to… — 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… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be… — 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
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly,… — 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
In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope… — 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 is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the… — 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
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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