Gore Vidal Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

  Gore Vidal

  Other Cultures, Culture, Literature

  "United States: Essays 1952-1992 (Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes)". Book by Gore Vidal, May 18, 1993.

• Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

  Gore Vidal

  Christian, Pain, Hate

• I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, People, Trying

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

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