Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidalwas an American writerand a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 October 1925
CityWest Point, NY
CountryUnited States of America
god country father
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.
country evil people
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 in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.
wells true-wisdom knows
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
beautiful four common
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
party wings two
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
war metaphor terror
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
revival legislature states
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
latin mean men
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 change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
latin roots democracy
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized...
democracy earth republic
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
art war lying
There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.
mind
The unfed mind devours itself.
government liberty libertarian
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
war thinking chinese
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.