All Gore Vidal Quotes
- We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be… Afraid
- Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house. Animal
- Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made… All
- By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced… Ability
- Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs. Amateurs
- The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his… Act
- Style...is knowing who you are... Knowing
- The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. From
- To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States.… Actually Like
- They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy,… Afghanistan
- 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