People Quotes by Gore Vidal

Gossip is conversation about people.

— Gore Vidal

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

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Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

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No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out…

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I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the…

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You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the…

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Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

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The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs…

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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations…

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Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct…

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We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents…

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I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even…

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In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required…

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When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my…

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People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which…

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The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and…

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It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in…

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The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by…

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People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching…

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Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at…

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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam…

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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never…

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It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that…

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Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or…

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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

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If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they…

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

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From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's…

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I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain…

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A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything…

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Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate…

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Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in…

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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