American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
Gore Vidal
ViewMagicMysteryArtistMatter
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.
PowerMoneyWorldRevolutionThree
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
GoodMeSocietyBadKnowSay
I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
LifeCourseBeganAbsoluteCondition
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
ManSpaceCityMadnessViolence
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
FatherCourageWomanMindMeCare
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
PotentialViewReviewsEvenMost
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.
GovernmentMoreMilitaryAgainst
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.
DayPoliceCityFindLivingOne Day
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
WarYouBecomePresidentRights
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
AmericanPresidentBankManhattan
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
DepressionWarPeopleWorldName
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Gore Vidal quotes