It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and… — 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
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
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women… — 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
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that… — 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
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
