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Gore Vidal Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people Picture Quote #1

You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars Picture Quote #1

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale Picture Quote #1

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Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality Picture Quote #1

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas Picture Quote #1

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Country is run by... financial powers and corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don’t have to pay taxes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My family helped start [this country], we’ve been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country Picture Quote #1

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch Picture Quote #1

The individual’s desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining Picture Quote #1

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view Picture Quote #1

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly Picture Quote #1

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one’s failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self Picture Quote #1

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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East Picture Quote #1

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent God, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system Picture Quote #1

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that’s the end of the constitution as a working machine Picture Quote #1

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind Picture Quote #1

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing Picture Quote #1

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre Picture Quote #1

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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed Picture Quote #1

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time Picture Quote #1

To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities Picture Quote #1

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer Picture Quote #1

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets Picture Quote #1

We’ve had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush Picture Quote #1

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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. (Gore Vidal Quotes) I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people (Gore Vidal Quotes) You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have. (Gore Vidal Quotes) 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 Quotes) It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars. (Gore Vidal Quotes) The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. (Gore Vidal Quotes) Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. (Gore Vidal Quotes) In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas (Gore Vidal Quotes) You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. (Gore Vidal Quotes) 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. (Gore Vidal Quotes) Country is run by... financial powers and corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don’t have to pay taxes (Gore Vidal Quotes) 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 Quotes) My family helped start [this country], we’ve been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country. (Gore Vidal Quotes) I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch (Gore Vidal Quotes) The individual’s desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. (Gore Vidal Quotes) I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view. (Gore Vidal Quotes) Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly. (Gore Vidal Quotes) The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one’s failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self. (Gore Vidal Quotes) Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. (Gore Vidal Quotes) I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent God, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system. (Gore Vidal Quotes) Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that’s the end of the constitution as a working machine. (Gore Vidal Quotes) The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. (Gore Vidal Quotes) If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing. (Gore Vidal Quotes) Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre. (Gore Vidal Quotes) In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed (Gore Vidal Quotes) I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. (Gore Vidal Quotes) To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. (Gore Vidal Quotes) It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. (Gore Vidal Quotes) After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets. (Gore Vidal Quotes) We’ve had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush. (Gore Vidal Quotes)

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