The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses… — 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… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business… — 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
Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing… — 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
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and… — 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… — 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
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian. — 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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better… — 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
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press,… — 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
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
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
