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People Quotes by Gore Vidal
- I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
- In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support…
- 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…
- You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the…
- 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…
- The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy…
- You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public…
- It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human…
- I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because…
- Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
- We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have…
- Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.…
- 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…
- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
- There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of…
- Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are…
- 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…
- It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
- 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…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle