Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 3

• Los presidentes han ido absolutamente en contra de la voluntad del Congreso. El Congreso no ha declarado una guerra desde el 7 de diciembre de 1941, y sin embargo hemos estado en guerra desde entonces con alguien u otro para justificar la máquina de guerra. Ahora hemos alienado a casi toda la tierra

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  War, Order, President

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

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  Nice, Believe, Men

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• Al menos, cuando el emperador Justiniano, un dios del cielo, decidió prohibir la sodomía, tuvo que inventar una buena razón práctica, y así lo hizo. Es bien sabido, declaró Justiniano, que la sodomía es una de las principales causas de los terremotos, por lo que debe prohibirse. Pero nuestros dioses del cielo, siempre deseosos de odiar, siguen citando el Levítico, como si ese texto de locos tuviera algo útil que decir sobre algo excepto, quizás, la desaconsejabilidad de comer marisco en la zona de Jerusalén.

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  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

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  New York, War, Lying

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• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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  Failure, Envy, Political

  Quoted in Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 3 Nov. 1978

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• Se oye todo ese lloriqueo: "¿Dónde están nuestros grandes escritores?". Lo que a mí me apena es: ¿Dónde están los lectores?

  Gore Vidal

  Investing, Might, Whining

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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• How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

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  Clever, Thinking, Years

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• Never offend an enemy in a small way.

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  Enemy, Way

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

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• Hay algo en que el Estado ponga el poder de intimidar en manos de simios subnormales y sádicos que me hace hervir la sangre.

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  Sangre, Manos, Matón

  Publicación en FaceBook de Gore Vidal del 28 de dic de 2016.

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• A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Cynicism

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 08, 2011

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• I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

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  Country, Average, Europe

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

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  Media, Oil, White

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• Aparentemente, una democracia es un lugar donde se celebran numerosas elecciones a un gran coste sin problemas y con candidatos intercambiables.

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  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

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  Gente, Quiere, Suficiente

  "The Fantastic Man". Interview with Gert Jonkers. Butt magazine, No. 20, www.buttmagazine.com. July 01, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Latin, Mean, Men

  Gore Vidal (1992). "Decadencia y caída del imperio americano".

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• That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

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  President, Worship

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

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  Order, Way

  Gore Vidal (1982). “The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)”, Random House Inc

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• We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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  Kings, Artist, Boys

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• The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

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  Escritura, cerebro

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• Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

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  Country, Believe, Passion

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A good deed never goes unpunished.

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  Obras, buenas obras

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 29, 2011

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• 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.

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  País, Gente, Mal

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• 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.

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  Atheist, Kings, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). "Decadencia y caída del imperio americano".

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• The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

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  War, Metaphor, Terror

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• I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

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  Add, Way, Deals

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