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World Quotes by Gore Vidal
- To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
- It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.…
- World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
- The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others…
- 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…
- 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…
- Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world…
- The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed…
- All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
- We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks.…
- Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
- That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
- How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
- 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…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach