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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

American Novelist

Born: Oct 3, 1925

Died: Jul 31, 2012

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal

Time You Vote People Words Disguise Election Language Liberate Will Own Confuse Action Too Destroying City Time People Decadent Against Interests Used Grow Illuminate Grows Societies

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

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. Gore Vidal

People Seen Country States Since Them United United States Founded Brightest

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

Government Class People Genius Nothing Our Ruling Ruling Class System Along Most Majority Return Inequity Questioning Get Where Heavy Which Taxes Paying Ever Kept

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. Gore Vidal

Democracy Our Scale Highest Form Bribery

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. Gore Vidal

Age Will President Rule Television Perfect Exception Days

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. Gore Vidal

Conspiracy Analyst Theorist

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. Gore Vidal

Hope Vote People Percent Read Same Newspapers Fifty

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. Gore Vidal

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal

Enough Others Must Fail Succeed

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250. Gore Vidal

Government Made Military Other Other Countries Strikes Unprovoked No Idea More Mischief Idea Countries Since Than American Against Extent Number

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. Gore Vidal

Day Police Living State Liberties One Day City Find Civil Civil Liberties Police State Himself Least Any May Vigilant Who

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. Gore Vidal

Suicide Something Write Just Note Even

The unfed mind devours itself. Gore Vidal

Mind Itself

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. Gore Vidal

Freedom Money Law Entrepreneur Live Society Considerable Paradox Morals Allowed Abuse Make Although Private Order Which Public Use Now

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. Gore Vidal

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. Gore Vidal

Unhappy General American Bigoted Declining Ignorant Incomes Deeply

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. Gore Vidal

Stupid Enough Remembered Forgotten Anybody Want Who Now Deserves Right

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. Gore Vidal

Democracy You Feeling Give Both Like Supposed Just Choice Aspirin

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