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Men 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,…
- If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in…
- 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…
- To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity…
- 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…
- Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle