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
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.
country class people
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
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.
conspiracy analysts theorists
I’m not a conspiracy theorist—I’m a conspiracy analyst,
people political voting
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
people political genius
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
games giving telling-the-truth
You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.
lying father wonder
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").
country objectivity media
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 to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.