Vote Quotes by Gore Vidal

10 Vote quotes by Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal’s ten sharp lines on voting cut through the noise with his characteristic wit. They give a quick, incisive look at his take on democracy, ideal for readers who appreciate a clever critique.

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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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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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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right…

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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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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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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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How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest…

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city…

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Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote…

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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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Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

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All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

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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 their sense…

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“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our…

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