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Other Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
- 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…
- To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States.…
- 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…
- Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
- Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
- Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and…
- What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
- The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country…
- Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever…
- Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain…
- 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.…
- Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government…
- Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s.…
- What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour