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Political Quotes by Gore Vidal
- What is a political party but a conspiracy?
- Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian…
- 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…
- 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…
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
- By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- 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…
- 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.…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle