Gore Vidal Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Democracy, Earth, Republic

  "Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.

• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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

  Gore Vidal

  Democracy, Politics, Form

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 21, 2014

• Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Enemy, Democracy

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

  Gore Vidal

  Pain, Giving, Choices

  1982 Interview in the Observer, 7 Feb.

• The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

  Gore Vidal

  Latin, Roots, Democracy

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

• 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.

  Gore Vidal

  Latin, Mean, Men

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

• What is a political party but a conspiracy?

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Political, Democracy

• I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Survival, Democracy

  "Views From a Window". Book by Robert J. Stanton, Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. 1980.

• In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Commitment, Rights

• Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Two, America

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

• I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Army, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

  Gore Vidal

  Views, Democracy, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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