« All Man Quotes · Gore Vidal's Page
Man Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference,…
- Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything…
- Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything…
- 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…
- It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
- It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The…
- You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest…
- At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he…
- By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
- To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
- 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…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle