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
country courses whole
Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
class people reform
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
children character drawing
You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.
country war grief
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.
umpires decision may
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.
inspirational people personality
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
causes facts birth
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
democracy politics scales
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
strange humans
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
failure envy political
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
war order president
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth
atheist kings father
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.
government class people
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.
sex grief thinking
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.