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
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs… — 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… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even… — 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
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — 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
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all… — 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
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote… — 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
