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From Quotes by Gore Vidal
- The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical.…
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them…
- We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.
- 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…
- The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
- 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…
- He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
- The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer…
- When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left…
- There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the…
- When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president…
- The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a…
- The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human…
- The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where…
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed…
- The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl…
- Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he…
- We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.…
- Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt