All Gore Vidal Quotes
- The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author,… Americans
- Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child… Aggression
- Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable… Arrest
- A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather… Airwaves
- COâ‚‚ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere. Anywhere
- He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. All
- The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. Dandruff
- I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction. Fiction
- Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect! Imagine
- Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the… Bad
- The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.' Act
- To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. Egotism
- Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth. Apparently
- When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god,… Able
- The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others… Allowed
- The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy… America
- Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that… Age
- You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public… American
- Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were… Alert
- It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human… Actually Thought