Gore Vidal Quotes

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Gore Vidal

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 most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gore Vidal

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Gore Vidal

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

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We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

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